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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Willow in Alaska

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Willow in Alaska. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:40:29 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -150.4822 West, latitude 61.649 North, depth = 26.5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005fty, ak13531454. Unique identifier: ak13531454. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 07:40:29 / May 8, 2016 @ 7:40 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.5 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Elmendorf Air Force Base (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 28 km WSW of Willow, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.4822° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.649° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km WSW of Willow, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-08 07:40:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-08 08:16:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.23	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	234	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	0.68 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	ak13531454	Id of event.
Event Code	13531454	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005fty,ak13531454,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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