Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Anchorage in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 12:51:32 / July 15, 2015 @ 12:51 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.7 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.5085 West, latitude 61.2766 North, depth = 44.7 km. The temblor was detected at 04:51:32 / 4:51 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak11647512. Event ids that are associated: ak11647512.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sterling, Palmer, Gateway (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km WNW of Anchorage, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.5085° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.2766° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km WNW of Anchorage, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-15 12:51:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-15 13:10:13	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	2.7	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	200	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	0.78 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	ak11647512	Id of event.
Event Code	11647512	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11647512,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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