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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Anchor Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.6544S, -152.0646WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska on Wednesday. Event id: ak0206hkhgel. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0206hkhgel. The temblor was detected at 14:02:58 / 2:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.0646 West, latitude 59.6544 North, depth = 70.5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 70.5 km (44 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 23:02:58 / May 20, 2020 @ 11:02 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

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

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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 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: 18 km SW of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.0646° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.6544° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SW 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 2020-05-20 23:02:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 23:07:41 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 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 0.53 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 ak0206hkhgel Id of event.
Event Code 0206hkhgel An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0206hkhgel, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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