Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Big Lake in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska on Tuesday. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:49:01 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak20443040, us1000i2g4. Unique identifier: us1000i2g4. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.08 km (27 miles). Exact location of event, depth 44.08 km, -150.0566° West, 61.4652° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/12/18 / 2018-12-04 22:49:01 / December 4, 2018 @ 10:49 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and nineteen, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km SW of Big Lake, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.0566° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.4652° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SW 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	2018-12-04 22:49:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-05 03:50:23	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	2.51	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	158	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	,ak,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	0.29	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us1000i2g4	Id of event.
Event Code	1000i2g4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak20443040,us1000i2g4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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