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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Willow in Alaska

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Willow in Alaska on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.3 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 07:40:29 / May 8, 2016 @ 7:40 am. The temblor was reported at 23:40:29 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10005fty. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005fty. Exact location of event, depth 41.3 km, -150.5418° West, 61.6566° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Elmendorf Air Force Base. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 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. 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: 28 km WSW of Willow, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.5418° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.6566° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.3 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 07:58:43	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		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	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	234	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,	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	0.222	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	us10005fty	Id of event.
Event Code	10005fty	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005fty,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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