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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Anchorage in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.3532S, -150.0249WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:39:13 / 10:39 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 19:39:13 / November 30, 2018 @ 7:39 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000hykz. Event ids that are associated: us1000hykz. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -150.0249° West, 61.3532° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 16 km NNW of Anchorage, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0249° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.3532° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km 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 19:39:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-30 20:12:25 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 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 199 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 0.299 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 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 us1000hykz Id of event.
Event Code 1000hykz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hykz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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