Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near King Cove in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 15 km E of King Cove, Alaska (9 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -162.0834 West, latitude 55.0628 North, depth = 6.694 km. The temblor was detected at 15:31:59 / 3:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.694 km (4 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000pu3t. Event ids that are associated: av93582456, us7000pu3t. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/04/25 / 2025-04-21 15:31:59 / April 21, 2025 @ 3:31 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 15 km E of King Cove, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-162.0834° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.0628° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.694 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km E of King Cove, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-21 15:31:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-22 13:49:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	,av,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.123	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	164	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	us7000pu3t	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pu3t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,av93582456,us7000pu3t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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