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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Big Lake in Alaska

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska on Thursday. Event id: ak19843628. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pbf9w0, ak19843628. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 02:07:12 / July 6, 2018 @ 2:07 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Big Lake in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 59.2 km (37 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:07:12 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -150.8213° West, latitude 61.387° North, depth = 59.2 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gateway, Lakes, Tanaina. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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: 48 km WSW of Big Lake, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Alaska Anchorage Big Lake Eagle River Gateway Knik-Fairview Lakes Tanaina United States Wasilla

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.8213° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.387° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	59.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km WSW of Big Lake, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-06 02:07:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-06 02:27:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	63	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	automatic	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	304	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	,at,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	0.72 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	ak19843628	Id of event.
Event Code	19843628	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00pbf9w0,ak19843628,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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