Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 13 km ESE of Y, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Y in Alaska on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 05:01:01 / 5:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 13:01:01 / April 14, 2016 @ 1:01 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: ak13436559. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13436559. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.9 km (25 miles). Exact location, longitude -149.6029° West, latitude 62.1237° North, depth = 39.9 km.

Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop). 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 Knik-Fairview, Gateway, Palmer.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 13 km ESE of Y, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.6029° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	62.1237° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km ESE of Y, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-14 13:01:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-14 13:23:26	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	148	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	0.64 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	ak13436559	Id of event.
Event Code	13436559	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13436559,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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