Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Alaska Peninsula

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Alaska Peninsula (0 miles). The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:49:46 / 11:49 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.08 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -160.7588 West, latitude 54.4252 North, depth = 19.08 km. Id of earthquake: us6000d5el. Event ids that are associated: us6000d5el. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/01/21 / 2021-01-04 11:49:46 / January 4, 2021 @ 11:49 am.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and seventy-nine 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Alaska Peninsula. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-160.7588° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.4252° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Alaska Peninsula	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-04 11:49:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-04 13:41:18	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	211	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	0.792	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	us6000d5el	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d5el	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d5el,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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