Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska kilometers (0 miles) from Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 56.7 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.5137 West, latitude 60.701 North, depth = 56.7 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:36:17 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak16513722. Unique identifier: ak16513722. Global time and date of event 13/08/17 / 2017-08-13 19:36:17 / August 13, 2017 @ 7:36 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Elmendorf Air Force Base (c. 6 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Kalifornsky.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.5137° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.701° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	56.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Kenai Peninsula, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-13 19:36:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-27 00:12:20	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	reviewed	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	138	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	0.56 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	ak16513722	Id of event.
Event Code	16513722	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak16513722,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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