Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near False Pass in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 36 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska (22 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.63 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/18 / 2018-09-25 23:27:01 / September 25, 2018 @ 11:27 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:27:01 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20263412, us1000h54t. Id of event: us1000h54t. Exact location, longitude -163.288° West, latitude 54.5328° North, depth = 18.63 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 36 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-163.288° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.5328° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km SSE of False Pass, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-25 23:27:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-08 01:53:13	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	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	199	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,us,	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	0.313	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000h54t	Id of event.
Event Code	1000h54t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak20263412,us1000h54t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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