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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 32 km NNW of Anchor Point, Alaska


Earthquake location 60.0432S, -152.0834WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:17:17 / 3:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 85.2 km, -152.0834° West, 60.0432° North. All ids that are associated to the event: ak11751087. Unique identifier: ak11751087. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/10/15 / 2015-10-26 01:17:17 / October 26, 2015 @ 1:17 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 85.2 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 60 km (38 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Homer (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 32 km NNW of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.0834° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.0432° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km NNW of Anchor Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-26 01:17:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-26 01:42:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 148 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 0.76 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 ak11751087 Id of event.
Event Code 11751087 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11751087, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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