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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Homer in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.3888S, -151.2816WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Homer in Alaska on Friday. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:01:25 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.9 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/03/18 / 2018-03-09 16:01:25 / March 9, 2018 @ 4:01 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -151.2816 West, latitude 59.3888 North, depth = 32.9 km. Id of earthquake: ak18647217. Event ids that are associated: ak18647217.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 32 km SSE of Homer, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.2816° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.3888° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SSE of Homer, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-09 16:01:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-09 16:13:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 168 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 0.71 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 ak18647217 Id of event.
Event Code 18647217 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18647217, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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