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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Anchorage in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.3631S, -149.8803WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 08:33:51 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -149.8803 West, latitude 61.3631 North, depth = 44.15 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hyrc. Id of event: us1000hyrc. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.15 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 17:33:51 / November 30, 2018 @ 5:33 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-five, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 16 km N of Anchorage, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.8803° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.3631° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km N 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 2018-11-30 17:33:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-30 22:35:10 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 4.37 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 354 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 0.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us1000hyrc Id of event.
Event Code 1000hyrc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hyrc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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