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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near False Pass in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.4432S, -162.5152WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 73 km SE of False Pass, Alaska (45 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -162.5152 West, latitude 54.4432 North, depth = 81.97 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81.97 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:30:49 / 3:30 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/07/19 / 2019-07-21 00:30:49 / July 21, 2019 @ 12:30 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0199a2qn0u, us6000564g. Id of event: us6000564g.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 73 km SE of False Pass, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -162.5152° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4432° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km SE 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 2019-07-21 00:30:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-18 02:02:47 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 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 138 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 0.668 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us6000564g Id of event.
Event Code 6000564g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0199a2qn0u,us6000564g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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