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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 256 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.3363S, -148.7745WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 256 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska (159 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -148.7745° West, 56.3363° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak02060rr5vf, us70009fh1. Unique identifier: us70009fh1. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/05/20 / 2020-05-10 07:31:04 / May 10, 2020 @ 7:31 am UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:31:04 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter).

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 four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 256 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.7745° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 256 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-10 07:31:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-03 08:45:17 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 148 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 2.536 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us70009fh1 Id of event.
Event Code 70009fh1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02060rr5vf,us70009fh1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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