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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 49 km NW of Anchor Point, Alaska


Earthquake location 60.0284S, -152.557WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska on Thursday. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:02:21 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -152.557° West, 60.0284° North, depth 98.5 km. Unique identifier: ak12546449. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12546449. The epicenter was at a depth of 98.5 km (61 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/01/16 / 2016-01-28 10:02:21 / January 28, 2016 @ 10:02 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Homer. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days seventy and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 49 km NW of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.557° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.0284° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NW 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 2016-01-28 10:02:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-28 10:42:22 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 178 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 ak12546449 Id of event.
Event Code 12546449 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12546449, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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