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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, Gulf of Alaska


Earthquake location 55.6834S, -149.2483WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Gulf of Alaska (0 miles). Event id: us70005t8u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019brq7btf, us70005t8u. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/19 / 2019-09-13 21:20:43 / September 13, 2019 @ 9:20 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.56 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -149.2483° West, latitude 55.6834° North, depth = 9.56 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:20:43 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Gulf of Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.2483° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.6834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Gulf of Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-13 21:20:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-11 23:56:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 ,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 2.721 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005t8u Id of event.
Event Code 70005t8u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019brq7btf,us70005t8u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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