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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near False Pass in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.4761S, -164.2447WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 68 km SW of False Pass, Alaska (42 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak02113p503a, us6000ddni. Unique identifier: us6000ddni. Exact location of earthquake, -164.2447° West, 54.4761° North, depth 99.99 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 99.99 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:40:45 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/01/21 / 2021-01-24 00:40:45 / January 24, 2021 @ 12:40 am UTC/GMT.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 68 km SW of False Pass, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -164.2447° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4761° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 km SW of False Pass, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-24 00:40:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-07 03:22:45 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 188 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 ,ak,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 0.219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us6000ddni Id of event.
Event Code 6000ddni An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02113p503a,us6000ddni, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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