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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Cordova in Alaska


Earthquake location 58.1557S, -144.5022WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 275 km SSE of Cordova, Alaska (171 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -144.5022 West, latitude 58.1557 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us6000c1vv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020cgbp2hl, us6000c1vv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:49:16 / 8:49 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/09/20 / 2020-09-27 08:49:16 / September 27, 2020 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 275 km SSE of Cordova, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.5022° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.1557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 275 km SSE of Cordova, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-27 08:49:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-24 06:36:54 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 158 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 1.596 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 185 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 us6000c1vv Id of event.
Event Code 6000c1vv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020cgbp2hl,us6000c1vv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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