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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Redoubt Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.7915S, -152.5075WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Redoubt Volcano in Alaska. Exact location, longitude -152.5075° West, latitude 60.7915° North, depth = 118.4 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:00:26 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/09/15 / 2015-09-21 14:00:26 / September 21, 2015 @ 2:00 pm. Unique identifier: ak11717301. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11717301. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 118.4 km (74 miles).

The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalifornsky, Kenai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 36 km NNE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.5075° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.7915° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km NNE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-21 14:00:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-21 14:37:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 188 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 0.61 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 ak11717301 Id of event.
Event Code 11717301 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11717301, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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