Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Minto in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 22, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 64.9717S, -149.1503WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Minto in Alaska. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:55:58 / 1:55 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/08/20 / 2020-08-22 13:55:58 / August 22, 2020 @ 1:55 pm. Exact location of event, depth 14.5 km, -149.1503° West, 64.9717° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020asvd3t1. Id of event: ak020asvd3t1. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.5 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fairbanks, College (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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 four and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

How would you describe the shaking?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 22 km SSE of Minto, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.1503° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.9717° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km SSE of Minto, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-22 13:55:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-22 14:26:04 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 138 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 0.92 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 ak020asvd3t1 Id of event.
Event Code 020asvd3t1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020asvd3t1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today