Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Salcha in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Salcha in Alaska. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:44:35 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -147.4005 West, latitude 64.378 North, depth = 10.15 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000bje5. Unique identifier: us6000bje5. Global time and date of event 23/08/20 / 2020-08-23 13:44:35 / August 23, 2020 @ 1:44 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.15 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 57 km (35 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 College, Fairbanks, Badger (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km SW of Salcha, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-147.4005° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	64.378° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km SW of Salcha, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-23 13:44:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-23 14:04:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	189	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	0.199	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	22	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	us6000bje5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bje5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bje5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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