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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Anchor Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.7232S, -152.0848WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska on Thursday. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:40:52 / 5:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 79 km (49 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak13654122. Unique identifier: ak13654122. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/06/16 / 2016-06-17 01:40:52 / June 17, 2016 @ 1:40 am. Exact location, longitude -152.0848° West, latitude 59.7232° North, depth = 79 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 15 km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.0848° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.7232° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WSW 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 2016-06-17 01:40:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-17 02:06:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 200 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 0.59 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 ak13654122 Id of event.
Event Code 13654122 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13654122, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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