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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near False Pass in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.6781S, -163.4987WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 130 km S of False Pass, Alaska (81 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 01:53:27 / October 28, 2016 @ 1:53 am. Exact location of event, longitude -163.4987 West, latitude 53.6781 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:53:27 / 2:53 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak14279718, us10007419. Id of event: us10007419.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 130 km S of False Pass, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.4987° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.6781° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130km S of False Pass, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-28 01:53:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-25 01:43:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 reviewed 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 178 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak,us, 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 1.181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 us10007419 Id of event.
Event Code 10007419 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak14279718,us10007419, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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