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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, Southern Alaska


Earthquake location 59.5984S, -152.6281WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Southern Alaska kilometers (0 miles) from Southern Alaska. Exact location of event, longitude -152.6281 West, latitude 59.5984 North, depth = 82.7 km. The temblor was reported at 00:29:29 / 12:29 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 82.7 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/07/17 / 2017-07-08 00:29:29 / July 8, 2017 @ 12:29 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: ak16288069. Event ids that are associated: ak16288069.

The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Southern Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.6281° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.5984° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Southern Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-08 00:29:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-08 00:32:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 188 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 0.16 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 ak16288069 Id of event.
Event Code 16288069 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16288069, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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