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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Anchor Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.5643S, -152.9204WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. Unique identifier: ak0193eem4u6. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0193eem4u6, us1000jg4g. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/03/19 / 2019-03-15 01:42:08 / March 15, 2019 @ 1:42 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 89.1 km (55 miles). Exact location of event, depth 89.1 km, -152.9204° West, 59.5643° North. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:42:08 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

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

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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: 65 km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.9204° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.5643° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km WSW 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 2019-03-15 01:42:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-15 02:00:10 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 178 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,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 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 ak0193eem4u6 Id of event.
Event Code 0193eem4u6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0193eem4u6,us1000jg4g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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