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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Kenai Peninsula, Alaska


Earthquake location 59.0172S, -151.568WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes Kenai Peninsula, Alaska kilometers (0 miles) from Kenai Peninsula, Alaska on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/20 / 2020-07-26 05:30:01 / July 26, 2020 @ 5:30 am. The temblor was reported at 05:30:01 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak0209k2xsbv. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0209k2xsbv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -151.568° West, 59.0172° North, depth 34 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.568° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.0172° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kenai Peninsula, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-26 05:30:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-26 05:34:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 138 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, 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 0.44 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 ak0209k2xsbv Id of event.
Event Code 0209k2xsbv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0209k2xsbv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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