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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Old Iliamna in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.118S, -153.6464WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 101 km SE of Old Iliamna, Alaska (63 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:17:08 / 7:17 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak0197g6otfw. Event ids that are associated: ak0197g6otfw, us70003y45. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 93.5 km (58 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/06/19 / 2019-06-11 16:17:08 / June 11, 2019 @ 4:17 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -153.6464 West, latitude 59.118 North, depth = 93.5 km.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 101 km SE of Old Iliamna, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.6464° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.118° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km SE of Old Iliamna, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-11 16:17:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-11 16:25:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 178 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,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 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 ak0197g6otfw Id of event.
Event Code 0197g6otfw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0197g6otfw,us70003y45, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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