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

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Fritz Creek in Alaska. The temblor was reported at 13:11:45 / 1:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.3903 West, latitude 59.7705 North, depth = 79.66 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.66 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000bgis. Event ids that are associated: us6000bgis. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/08/20 / 2020-08-18 13:11:45 / August 18, 2020 @ 1:11 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalifornsky, Homer.

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

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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: 6 km NW of Fritz Creek, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.3903° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.7705° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	79.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km NW of Fritz Creek, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-18 13:11:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-18 13:22:23	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	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	0.174	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us6000bgis	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bgis	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bgis,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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