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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Anchor Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.7765S, -153.1682WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 75 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska (47 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak12528261. Id of event: ak12528261. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/01/16 / 2016-01-26 22:31:46 / January 26, 2016 @ 10:31 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -153.1682 West, latitude 59.7765 North, depth = 103 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 103 km (64 miles). The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:31:46 / 1:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 75 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.1682° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.7765° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km W 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 2016-01-26 22:31:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-26 23:09:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 211 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 0.65 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 ak12528261 Id of event.
Event Code 12528261 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12528261, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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