Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Sutton-Alpine in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Sutton-Alpine in Alaska on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 16.8 km, -147.5652° West, 61.675° North. Global time and date of event 17/11/15 / 2015-11-17 20:42:18 / November 17, 2015 @ 8:42 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11988347. Id of event: ak11988347. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.8 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 11:42:18 / 11:42 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Palmer (c. 5 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 69 km E of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-147.5652° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.675° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km E of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-17 20:42:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-17 20:53:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	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	222	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	0.84 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	ak11988347	Id of event.
Event Code	11988347	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11988347,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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