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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 22 km SW of Cohoe, Alaska


Earthquake location 60.2406S, -151.6282WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Cohoe in Alaska. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.9 km (33 miles). Global time and date of event 28/04/20 / 2020-04-28 03:50:47 / April 28, 2020 @ 3:50 am UTC/GMT. Event id: ak0205gv1ezh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0205gv1ezh. The temblor was picked up at 18:50:47 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.6282 West, latitude 60.2406 North, depth = 53.9 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer, Sterling, Kenai. Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km SW of Cohoe, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.6282° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.2406° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SW of Cohoe, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-28 03:50:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-28 04:04:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 ak0205gv1ezh Id of event.
Event Code 0205gv1ezh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0205gv1ezh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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