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


Earthquake location 60.3914S, -151.6197WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Cohoe in Alaska on Monday. The temblor was detected at 16:37:01 / 4:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -151.6197 West, latitude 60.3914 North, depth = 53.9 km. Global time and date of event 10/08/20 / 2020-08-10 16:37:01 / August 10, 2020 @ 4:37 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.9 km (33 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak020a92l9fn. Unique identifier: ak020a92l9fn.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer, Sterling, Kenai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 17 km W of Cohoe, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.6197° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.3914° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km W of Cohoe, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-10 16:37:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-10 16:44:02 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 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 188 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 0.18 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 ak020a92l9fn Id of event.
Event Code 020a92l9fn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020a92l9fn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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