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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 11 km SSW of Sterling, Alaska

Posted by admin on April 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.4344S, -150.8184WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Sterling in Alaska. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.3 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/04/19 / 2019-04-21 03:39:01 / April 21, 2019 @ 3:39 am. Exact location of earthquake, -150.8184° West, 60.4344° North, depth 35.3 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:39:01 / 6:39 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak01953mo6mt. Ids that are associated to the event: ak01953mo6mt.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Sterling (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SSW of Sterling, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.8184° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.4344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW 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 2019-04-21 03:39:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-21 03:45:02 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 1.469 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 138 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 ak01953mo6mt Id of event.
Event Code 01953mo6mt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak01953mo6mt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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