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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Willow in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.8247S, -149.8732WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Willow in Alaska. Exact location of event, longitude -149.8732 West, latitude 61.8247 North, depth = 34.97 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/09/18 / 2018-09-17 01:36:02 / September 17, 2018 @ 1:36 am. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:36:02 / 4:36 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000hfmy. Event ids that are associated: us2000hfmy. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.97 km (22 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Eagle River (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km NE of Willow, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.8732° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.8247° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NE 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 2018-09-17 01:36:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-17 01:52:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 1.8 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 148 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 0.137 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us2000hfmy Id of event.
Event Code 2000hfmy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hfmy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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