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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Anchor Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.7264S, -152.3033WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: ak019gqbsg6w. Unique identifier: ak019gqbsg6w. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/19 / 2019-12-30 20:44:10 / December 30, 2019 @ 8:44 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -152.3033 West, latitude 59.7264 North, depth = 63.1 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.1 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:44:10 / 10:44 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 27 km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.3033° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.7264° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km 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 2019-12-30 20:44:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-30 20:48:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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, 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 0.51 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 ak019gqbsg6w Id of event.
Event Code 019gqbsg6w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019gqbsg6w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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