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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Big Lake in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.4296S, -149.9189WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska on Saturday. Unique identifier: ak20429017. Ids that are associated to the event: ak20429017. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/12/18 / 2018-12-02 07:36:32 / December 2, 2018 @ 7:36 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.9189 West, latitude 61.4296 North, depth = 70.1 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 70.1 km (44 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:36:32 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 10 km S of Big Lake, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9189° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.4296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 2018-12-02 07:36:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-02 07:46:57 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 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 automatic 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak20429017 Id of event.
Event Code 20429017 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20429017, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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