Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Cohoe in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Cohoe in Alaska. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.3 km (36 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/03/17 / 2017-03-10 02:22:11 / March 10, 2017 @ 2:22 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: ak15456019. Event ids that are associated: ak15456019. The temblor was detected at 16:22:11 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.8386 West, latitude 60.2192 North, depth = 58.3 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sterling, Homer, Kenai. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 33 km WSW of Cohoe, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.8386° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.2192° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km WSW of Cohoe, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-10 02:22:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-10 02:26:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	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	0.63 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	ak15456019	Id of event.
Event Code	15456019	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak15456019,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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