Alaska
Quake info: Light mag. 3.9 earthquake – 40 mi north of Valdez, Alaska, USA, on Monday, Aug 29, 2022 at 1:41 am (GMT -8)
Gentle magnitude 3.9 earthquake at 14 km depth
29 Aug 09:43 UTC: First to report: USGS after 2 minutes.
29 Aug 10:12: Magnitude recalculated from 3.8 to three.9. Hypocenter depth recalculated from 27.4 to 14.1 km (from 17 to eight.8 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 0.6 km (0.4 mi) in direction of NE.
Replace Mon, 29 Aug 2022, 09:48
Small magnitude 3.8 earthquake 39 miles northwest of Valdez, Alaska, United States
3.8 quake 39 mi north of Valdez, Alaska, USA, Aug 29, 2022 1:41 am (GMT -8)
An earthquake of magnitude 3.8 occurred early morning on Monday, August twenty ninth, 2022, at 1:41 am native time close to Valdez, Valdez-Cordova, Alaska, USA, as reported by the US Geological Survey.
Based on preliminary information, the quake was positioned at a shallow depth of 17 miles. Shallow earthquakes are felt extra strongly than deeper ones as they’re nearer to the floor. The precise magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake could be revised inside the subsequent few hours or minutes as seismologists overview information and refine their calculations, or as different companies difficulty their report.
A second report was later issued by the citizen-seismograph community of RaspberryShake, which listed it as a magnitude 3.8 earthquake as effectively. A 3rd company, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), reported the identical quake at magnitude 3.8.
Cities or cities close to the epicenter the place the quake may need been felt as very weak shaking embrace Nelchina (pop. 59) positioned 22 miles from the epicenter, and Valdez (pop. 3,900) 39 miles away.
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Information for a similar earthquake reported by totally different companies
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Magazine. | Depth | Location | Source |
3.9 | 14 km | 34 Km S of Nelchina, Alaska | USGS |
4.1 | 32 km | SOUTHERN ALASKA | EMSC |
3.9 | 14 km | Southern Alaska | RaspberryShake |
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