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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 39 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska


Earthquake location 59.9179S, -152.4741WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -152.4741° West, latitude 59.9179° North, depth = 83.1 km. Event id: ak0207g7d1qa. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0207g7d1qa. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.1 km (52 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/06/20 / 2020-06-10 17:30:13 / June 10, 2020 @ 5:30 pm. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:30:13 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-five 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.4741° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.9179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 km WNW 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 2020-06-10 17:30:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-10 17:38:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 148 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 0.57 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 ak0207g7d1qa Id of event.
Event Code 0207g7d1qa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0207g7d1qa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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