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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Big Lake in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.5163S, -149.9126WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Id of earthquake: us1000hyzz. Event ids that are associated: us1000hyzz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:11:46 / 3:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/12/18 / 2018-12-01 00:11:46 / December 1, 2018 @ 12:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -149.9126° West, 61.5163° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (21 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-nine, in the last 10 days eighty, in the past 30 days eighty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km ESE of Big Lake, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9126° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.5163° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ESE 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 2018-12-01 00:11:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-01 00:47:19 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 2.34 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 178 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 0.257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us1000hyzz Id of event.
Event Code 1000hyzz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hyzz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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