Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 69 km SSW of Kobuk, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 69 km SSW of Kobuk, Alaska (43 miles) on Friday. Exact location, longitude -157.5944° West, latitude 66.3548° North, depth = 15.8 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/03/19 / 2019-03-30 03:06:17 / March 30, 2019 @ 3:06 am. The temblor was reported at 18:06:17 / 6:06 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.8 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ak019438nic6. Event ids that are associated: ak019438nic6, us2000k7hq.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 69 km SSW of Kobuk, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-157.5944° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	66.3548° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km SSW of Kobuk, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-30 03:06:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-30 03:18:37	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	188	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	1 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	ak019438nic6	Id of event.
Event Code	019438nic6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak019438nic6,us2000k7hq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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