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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Valdez in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.7743S, -147.1652WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 59 km SW of Valdez, Alaska (37 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:08:47 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -147.1652° West, 60.7743° North, depth 18 km. Id of earthquake: ak13733803. Event ids that are associated: ak13733803. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/07/16 / 2016-07-01 01:08:47 / July 1, 2016 @ 1:08 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 59 km SW of Valdez, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -147.1652° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.7743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SW of Valdez, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-01 01:08:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-01 01:29:17 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 222 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 0.63 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 ak13733803 Id of event.
Event Code 13733803 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13733803, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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