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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Anchor Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.8355S, -152.9616WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 103.3 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.9616 West, latitude 59.8355 North, depth = 103.3 km. The temblor was detected at 12:23:03 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/02/18 / 2018-02-15 21:23:03 / February 15, 2018 @ 9:23 pm. Event id: ak18437336. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18437336.

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 63 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.9616° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.8355° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km W of Anchor Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-15 21:23:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-15 21:31:06 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 211 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 0.66 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 ak18437336 Id of event.
Event Code 18437336 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18437336, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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