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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Chignik Lake in Alaska


Earthquake location 57.0597S, -158.3778WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 92 km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska (57 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.1 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:10:38 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak13462374. Event ids that are associated: ak13462374. Exact location of event, longitude -158.3778 West, latitude 57.0597 North, depth = 13.1 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/16 / 2016-04-16 23:10:38 / April 16, 2016 @ 11:10 pm UTC/GMT.

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 eleven, in the past 30 days seventy and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 92 km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.3778° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.0597° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-16 23:10:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-16 23:44:32 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 138 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 0.87 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 ak13462374 Id of event.
Event Code 13462374 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13462374, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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