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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Anchorage in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.37S, -150.0139WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska on Friday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Anchorage in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pj0u04, us1000hyk6. Id of event: us1000hyk6. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 19:26:28 / November 30, 2018 @ 7:26 pm. The temblor was picked up at 10:26:28 / 10:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -150.0139° West, 61.37° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sterling, Palmer, Gateway (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 NNW of Anchorage, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0139° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.37° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NNW 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 19:26:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-30 19:47:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.63 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 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 372 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 ,at,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 0.311 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hyk6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hyk6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pj0u04,us1000hyk6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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