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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Anchorage in Alaska

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/08/16 / 2016-08-30 12:28:00 / August 30, 2016 @ 12:28 pm. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:28:00 / 4:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -149.1749 West, latitude 61.1265 North, depth = 35.1 km. Unique identifier: ak13887966. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13887966, at00ocq2mn. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.1 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Meadow Lakes, Tanaina, Lakes.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km ESE of Anchorage, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Alaska Anchorage Eagle River Knik-Fairview Lakes Meadow Lakes Tanaina United States Wasilla

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.1749° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.1265° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km ESE of Anchorage, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-30 12:28:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-30 12:53:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	117	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	1	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	270	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,at,	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	0.97 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	ak13887966	Id of event.
Event Code	13887966	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13887966,at00ocq2mn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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