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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Anchor Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.7701S, -152.6407WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska on Friday. The temblor was detected at 21:39:40 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.6407 West, latitude 59.7701 North, depth = 77.4 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/09/16 / 2016-09-17 05:39:40 / September 17, 2016 @ 5:39 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.4 km (48 miles). Id of earthquake: ak13996288. Event ids that are associated: ak13996288.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska. This data 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 -152.6407° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.7701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km W 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 2016-09-17 05:39:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-17 05:51:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.51 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 ak13996288 Id of event.
Event Code 13996288 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13996288, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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