Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Clam Gulch in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Clam Gulch in Alaska. Global time and date of event 15/02/21 / 2021-02-15 06:37:28 / February 15, 2021 @ 6:37 am UTC/GMT. Event id: ak021246ik2y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak021246ik2y. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.1987 West, latitude 60.1503 North, depth = 34.9 km. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:37:28 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 34.9 km (22 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer, Sterling, Kenai. Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (19 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SE of Clam Gulch, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.1987° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.1503° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km SE of Clam Gulch, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-02-15 06:37:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-15 06:40:02	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	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	199	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	0.72 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	ak021246ik2y	Id of event.
Event Code	021246ik2y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak021246ik2y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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