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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near False Pass in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.685S, -163.5188WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 130 km S of False Pass, Alaska (81 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 07/06/24 / 2024-06-07 09:34:39 / June 7, 2024 @ 9:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -163.5188 West, latitude 53.685 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event id: us7000mscr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mscr. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:34:39 / 9:34 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 130 km S of False Pass, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.5188° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130 km S 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 2024-06-07 09:34:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-22 14:16:29 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 178 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 220 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 us7000mscr Id of event.
Event Code 7000mscr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mscr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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