Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near King Cove in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 110 km SE of King Cove, Alaska (68 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.1 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:28:14 / 8:28 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000bqa2. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bqa2. Exact location, longitude -161.0977° West, latitude 54.3643° North, depth = 9.1 km. Global time and date of event 19/09/20 / 2020-09-19 20:28:14 / September 19, 2020 @ 8:28 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 110 km SE of King Cove, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-161.0977° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.3643° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	110 km SE of King Cove, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-19 20:28:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-23 05:24:53	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	199	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	0.994	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	197	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000bqa2	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bqa2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bqa2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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