Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Fairbanks in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Fairbanks in Alaska on Thursday. Id of earthquake: ak14700727. Event ids that are associated: ak14700727. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.5 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 09:20:46 / 9:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -147.773 West, latitude 64.7524 North, depth = 13.5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 18:20:46 / December 8, 2016 @ 6:20 pm.

The epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Badger, College, Fairbanks (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 9 km SSW of Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-147.773° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	64.7524° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSW of Fairbanks, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-08 18:20:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-08 18:37:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	0.31 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	ak14700727	Id of event.
Event Code	14700727	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak14700727,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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