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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near False Pass in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.6746S, -163.8701WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 134 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska (83 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -163.8701 West, latitude 53.6746 North, depth = 39.5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.5 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005gg4. Unique identifier: us70005gg4. Global time and date of event 14/09/19 / 2019-09-14 19:40:55 / September 14, 2019 @ 7:40 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:40:55 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ninety-eight 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. 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: 134 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.8701° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.6746° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134km SSW 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 2019-09-14 19:40:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-14 21:06:50 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 188 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 ,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 1.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 214 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005gg4 Id of event.
Event Code 70005gg4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005gg4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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