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Light earthquake 4 mag, 10 km SW of Big Lake, Alaska


Earthquake location 61.4461S, -150.0636WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 18:31:34 / November 30, 2018 @ 6:31 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.67 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000hyr0. Event ids that are associated: us1000hyr0. Exact location, longitude -150.0636° West, latitude 61.4461° North, depth = 41.67 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:31:34 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-three, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SW of Big Lake, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0636° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.4461° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW of Big Lake, 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 18:31:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-01 00:02:39 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 3.49 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 246 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 0.309 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us1000hyr0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hyr0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hyr0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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