Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near North Nenana in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from North Nenana in Alaska on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak12461079. Unique identifier: ak12461079. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/01/16 / 2016-01-14 19:04:11 / January 14, 2016 @ 7:04 pm. The temblor was reported at 10:04:11 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.5 km (11 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.2695 West, latitude 64.684 North, depth = 18.5 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Badger, Fairbanks, College. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 13 km NNW of North Nenana, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.2695° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	64.684° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km NNW of North Nenana, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-14 19:04:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-14 19:43:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.19	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	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	0.54 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	ak12461079	Id of event.
Event Code	12461079	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12461079,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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