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Light earthquake 4 mag, 26 km SSE of Knik-Fairview, Alaska

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Knik-Fairview in Alaska on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 20:18:58 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/03/16 / 2016-03-28 04:18:58 / March 28, 2016 @ 4:18 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.3913 West, latitude 61.2762 North, depth = 21.3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.3 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ak13114583. Event ids that are associated: us20005cud, ak13114583.

Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Meadow Lakes, Tanaina, Palmer (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 26 km SSE of Knik-Fairview, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.3913° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.2762° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km SSE of Knik-Fairview, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-28 04:18:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-28 05:04:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	90	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.44	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	273	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	,us,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	0.65 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	ak13114583	Id of event.
Event Code	13114583	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005cud,ak13114583,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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