Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Chiniak in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 251 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska (156 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0209yxnet3. Id of event: ak0209yxnet3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.2196 West, latitude 56.1003 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 04/08/20 / 2020-08-04 03:41:02 / August 4, 2020 @ 3:41 am UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:41:02 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 251 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.2196° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.1003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	251 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	2020-08-04 03:41:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-04 05:55:23	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	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	0.6 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	ak0209yxnet3	Id of event.
Event Code	0209yxnet3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0209yxnet3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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