Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near King Cove in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 75 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska (47 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/04/25 / 2025-04-18 17:12:28 / April 18, 2025 @ 5:12 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.748 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 52.748 km, -161.7878° West, 54.4545° North. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:12:28 / 5:12 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q722, ak0254yw8hgq. Id of event: us6000q722.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-one 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. 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: 75 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-161.7878° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.4545° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.748 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	75 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-18 17:12:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-19 15:08:41	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	2.385	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	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.029	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 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	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000q722	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q722	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q722,ak0254yw8hgq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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