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


Earthquake location 59.5291S, -152.6735WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Nanwalek in Alaska. The epicenter was at a depth of 87 km (54 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -152.6735 West, latitude 59.5291 North, depth = 87 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/03/21 / 2021-03-13 06:57:45 / March 13, 2021 @ 6:57 am. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:57:45 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak0213b6lwgp. Event ids that are associated: ak0213b6lwgp.

Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km WNW of Nanwalek, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.6735° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.5291° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 km WNW of Nanwalek, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-03-13 06:57:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-13 07:06:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 204 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 0.62 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 ak0213b6lwgp Id of event.
Event Code 0213b6lwgp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0213b6lwgp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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