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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 259 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.2161S, -148.8738WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 259 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska (161 miles) on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.72 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000ck9n. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ck9n. Exact location of event, longitude -148.8738 West, latitude 56.2161 North, depth = 19.72 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:09:58 / 7:09 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/11/20 / 2020-11-27 07:09:58 / November 27, 2020 @ 7:09 am.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days two hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 259 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.8738° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.2161° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 259 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-27 07:09:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-27 12:58:30 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 211 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 2.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us7000ck9n Id of event.
Event Code 7000ck9n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ck9n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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