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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Sutton-Alpine in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.7281S, -148.6122WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Sutton-Alpine in Alaska on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13781224. Id of event: ak13781224. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/07/16 / 2016-07-20 14:04:28 / July 20, 2016 @ 2:04 pm. The temblor was picked up at 06:04:28 / 6:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 18.5 km, -148.6122° West, 61.7281° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.5 km (11 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Elmendorf Air Force Base, Eagle River, Knik-Fairview (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 14 km ESE of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6122° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.7281° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ESE of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-20 14:04:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-20 14:57:16 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 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 189 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 0.67 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 ak13781224 Id of event.
Event Code 13781224 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13781224, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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