Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Salcha in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Salcha in Alaska on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 09:43:07 / 9:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/06/20 / 2020-06-23 09:43:07 / June 23, 2020 @ 9:43 am. Exact location, longitude -146.8766° West, latitude 64.5009° North, depth = 19.8 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak02081knvvb. Id of event: ak02081knvvb. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.8 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was College, Fairbanks, Badger (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 2 km SSE of Salcha, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-146.8766° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	64.5009° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km SSE of Salcha, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-23 09:43:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-23 09:57:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	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	190	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	1.26 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	ak02081knvvb	Id of event.
Event Code	02081knvvb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak02081knvvb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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