Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Kenai in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kenai in Alaska. Event id: ak14449745. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak14449745. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:06:49 / 11:06 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/11/16 / 2016-11-27 08:06:49 / November 27, 2016 @ 8:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.5401 West, latitude 60.5954 North, depth = 54.3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.3 km (34 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 24 km (15 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sterling, Kalifornsky, Kenai (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km WNW of Kenai, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.5401° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.5954° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km WNW of Kenai, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-27 08:06:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-27 08:19:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	158	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ak14449745	Id of event.
Event Code	14449745	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak14449745,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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