Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 45 km ESE of Fritz Creek, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Fritz Creek in Alaska. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.32 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 20:12:58 / January 23, 2020 @ 8:12 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007e39. Unique identifier: us60007e39. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.5306 West, latitude 59.6106 North, depth = 44.32 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:12:58 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 57 km (36 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 45 km ESE of Fritz Creek, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.5306° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.6106° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45km ESE of Fritz Creek, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-23 20:12:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-23 20:27:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	190	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	,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	0.237	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us60007e39	Id of event.
Event Code	60007e39	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007e39,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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