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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Arctic Village in Alaska


Earthquake location 68.5697S, -146.8081WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 71 km NW of Arctic Village, Alaska (44 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.5 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -146.8081 West, latitude 68.5697 North, depth = 1.5 km. Event id: ak13780712. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13780712. The temblor was detected at 04:53:03 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/07/16 / 2016-07-20 12:53:03 / July 20, 2016 @ 12:53 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 71 km NW of Arctic Village, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -146.8081° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 68.5697° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km NW of Arctic Village, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-20 12:53:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-20 13:21:24 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 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 0.78 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 ak13780712 Id of event.
Event Code 13780712 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13780712, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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