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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Big Lake in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.3966S, -150.0005WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hyj8. Unique identifier: us1000hyj8. Exact location of event, depth 32.69 km, -150.0005° West, 61.3966° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 19:02:29 / November 30, 2018 @ 7:02 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.69 km (20 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:02:29 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and one, in the last 10 days one hundred and two, in the past 30 days one hundred and three and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 14 km S of Big Lake, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0005° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.3966° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km S 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 19:02:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-01 02:04:43 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 1.86 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 148 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 0.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us1000hyj8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hyj8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hyj8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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