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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Perryville in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.8963S, -158.3689WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 123 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska (76 miles). Id of earthquake: ak020f2tos6z. Event ids that are associated: ak020f2tos6z. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/11/20 / 2020-11-23 22:53:22 / November 23, 2020 @ 10:53 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -158.3689 West, latitude 54.8963 North, depth = 36.1 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.1 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 22:53:22 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 123 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.3689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8963° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123 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 2020-11-23 22:53:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-23 23:42:14 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 199 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 0.63 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 ak020f2tos6z Id of event.
Event Code 020f2tos6z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020f2tos6z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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