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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Anchor Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.9898S, -152.6619WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/05/16 / 2016-05-05 19:11:43 / May 5, 2016 @ 7:11 pm. Exact location of event, depth 97.5 km, -152.6619° West, 59.9898° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13518032. Id of event: ak13518032. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:11:43 / 11:11 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 97.5 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 52 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.6619° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.9898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-05 19:11:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-05 19:34:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 138 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 0.47 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 ak13518032 Id of event.
Event Code 13518032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13518032, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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