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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Chiniak in Alaska

Posted by admin on June 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.2139S, -149.1687WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 245 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska (152 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.42 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/06/20 / 2020-06-18 13:34:46 / June 18, 2020 @ 1:34 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak0207tdb618, us6000ae6b. Unique identifier: us6000ae6b. Exact location, longitude -149.1687° West, latitude 56.2139° North, depth = 22.42 km. The temblor was detected at 13:34:46 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 245 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.1687° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.2139° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 245 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-18 13:34:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-18 14:30:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 188 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 ,ak,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 2.442 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us6000ae6b Id of event.
Event Code 6000ae6b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0207tdb618,us6000ae6b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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