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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near South Van Horn in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 64.5423S, -148.1336WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from South Van Horn in Alaska. Id of earthquake: ak020azbus7p. Event ids that are associated: ak020azbus7p. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.6 km (8 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:05:15 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/08/20 / 2020-08-26 04:05:15 / August 26, 2020 @ 4:05 am. Exact location of event, longitude -148.1336 West, latitude 64.5423 North, depth = 13.6 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 38 km (24 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Badger, Fairbanks, College. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km SSW of South Van Horn, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.1336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.5423° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km SSW of South Van Horn, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-26 04:05:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-26 04:11:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 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 139 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 0.73 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 ak020azbus7p Id of event.
Event Code 020azbus7p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020azbus7p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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