Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Talkeetna in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 133 km NW of Talkeetna, Alaska (83 miles). Global time and date of event 04/04/16 / 2016-04-04 22:27:52 / April 4, 2016 @ 10:27 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.3 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 14:27:52 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -151.7543 West, latitude 63.2605 North, depth = 14.3 km. Event id: ak13304228. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13304228.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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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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 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: 133 km NW of Talkeetna, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.7543° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	63.2605° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	133km NW of Talkeetna, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-04 22:27:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-05 00:57:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	138	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.413225	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61.199995104	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	ak13304228	Id of event.
Event Code	13304228	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13304228,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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