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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Big Lake in Alaska

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.34 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 16:16:10 / 4:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.8651 West, latitude 61.4845 North, depth = 36.34 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/12/18 / 2018-12-01 01:16:10 / December 1, 2018 @ 1:16 am. Event id: us1000hz1k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hz1k.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.8651° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.4845° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SE 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 01:16:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-01 01:28:36	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	2.43	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	188	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	0.295	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us1000hz1k	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hz1k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hz1k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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