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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 38 km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska

Posted by admin on July 6, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 62.1438S, -150.7335WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Talkeetna in Alaska. A tsunami warning has been issued near Talkeetna in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 16:49:57 / 4:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -150.7335 West, latitude 62.1438 North, depth = 58 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/15 / 2015-07-06 00:49:57 / July 6, 2015 @ 12:49 am. Event id: ak11641890. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nr1jn9, ak11641890.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gateway, Lakes, Wasilla. Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Gateway (c. 5 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.7335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.1438° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-06 00:49:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-06 01:06:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1 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 370 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 ,at,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 0.61 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 ak11641890 Id of event.
Event Code 11641890 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nr1jn9,ak11641890, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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