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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 35 km WNW of Nanwalek, Alaska


Earthquake location 59.51S, -152.4692WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Nanwalek in Alaska. Event id: ak020at0jk8z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00qfhkz4, us6000bj7a, ak020at0jk8z. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:25:53 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.6 km (37 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/08/20 / 2020-08-22 22:25:53 / August 22, 2020 @ 10:25 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -152.4692° West, 59.51° North, depth 59.6 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km WNW of Nanwalek, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.4692° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.51° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km WNW of Nanwalek, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-22 22:25:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-22 23:10:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1 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 200 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 ,at,us,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 0.68 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 ak020at0jk8z Id of event.
Event Code 020at0jk8z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qfhkz4,us6000bj7a,ak020at0jk8z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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