Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Talkeetna in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 17 km WNW of Talkeetna, Alaska (11 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -150.4388° West, 62.3723° North, depth 100.1 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak20287069. Unique identifier: ak20287069. The temblor was reported at 21:55:04 / 9:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/10/18 / 2018-10-19 06:55:04 / October 19, 2018 @ 6:55 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100.1 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 17 km WNW of Talkeetna, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.4388° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	62.3723° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	100.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km WNW of Talkeetna, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-19 06:55:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-19 07:06:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	236	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	1.19 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	ak20287069	Id of event.
Event Code	20287069	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak20287069,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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