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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 60 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska


Earthquake location 63.0238S, -151.0469WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 60 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska (37 miles) on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/08/20 / 2020-08-03 21:01:54 / August 3, 2020 @ 9:01 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 125.22 km (78 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.0469 West, latitude 63.0238 North, depth = 125.22 km. Event id: us6000b8vg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b8vg. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:01:54 / 9:01 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-seven 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 60 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.0469° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.0238° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 125.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-03 21:01:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-03 21:24:14 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 ,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 0.515 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 19 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 us6000b8vg Id of event.
Event Code 6000b8vg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b8vg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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