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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Knik-Fairview in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.3142S, -149.3263WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Knik-Fairview in Alaska. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.86 km (22 miles). The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:18:58 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -149.3263° West, latitude 61.3142° North, depth = 34.86 km. Event id: us20005cud. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005cud, ak13114583. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/03/16 / 2016-03-28 04:18:58 / March 28, 2016 @ 4:18 am.

Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Meadow Lakes, Tanaina, Palmer (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 26 km SSE of Knik-Fairview, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.3263° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.3142° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.86 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 04:46:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 51 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.4 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 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 251 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us 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 0.294 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 50 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005cud Id of event.
Event Code 20005cud 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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