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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Perryville in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.7725S, -158.4257WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 134 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska (83 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak024bjhu6mh, us6000nqdk. Unique identifier: us6000nqdk. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/09/24 / 2024-09-07 23:42:53 / September 7, 2024 @ 11:42 pm. Exact location of event, depth 32.081 km, -158.4257° West, 54.7725° North. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:42:53 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.081 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 134 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.4257° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.7725° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.081 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-07 23:42:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-03 01:58:29 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 2.503 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 ,ak,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.372 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 us6000nqdk Id of event.
Event Code 6000nqdk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024bjhu6mh,us6000nqdk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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