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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Perryville in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.1309S, -158.3121WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 101 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska (63 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/20 / 2020-07-22 11:53:05 / July 22, 2020 @ 11:53 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -158.3121° West, latitude 55.1309° North, depth = 35 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:53:05 / 11:53 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000b5y5. Unique identifier: us6000b5y5.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 101 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.3121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.1309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-22 11:53:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-20 11:09:46 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 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 178 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 0.795 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 184 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 us6000b5y5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000b5y5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b5y5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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