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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Big Lake in Alaska

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/12/18 / 2018-12-01 01:21:14 / December 1, 2018 @ 1:21 am UTC/GMT. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:21:14 / 4:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 38.09 km, -149.9251° West, 61.5169° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.09 km (24 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hz1p. Unique identifier: us1000hz1p.

Close 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. Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (21 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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-four, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.9251° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.5169° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km 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 01:21:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-01 01:38:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.42	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	189	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	0.254	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	us1000hz1p	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hz1p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hz1p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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