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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Sterling in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.3401S, -150.289WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Sterling in Alaska. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/05/18 / 2018-05-31 13:29:45 / May 31, 2018 @ 1:29 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.9 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: ak19694990. Ids that are associated to the event: ak19694990. Exact location of event, longitude -150.289 West, latitude 60.3401 North, depth = 34.9 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:29:45 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Sterling (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-three 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km SE of Sterling, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.289° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.3401° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SE of Sterling, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-31 13:29:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-31 13:34:16 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 148 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 0.7 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 ak19694990 Id of event.
Event Code 19694990 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19694990, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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