Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 19 km WSW of Anchorage, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska. Exact location of event, depth 8.3 km, -150.2558° West, 61.014° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.3 km (5 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:56:34 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0194zjjtd, us2000izyk. Unique identifier: ak0194zjjtd. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/01/19 / 2019-01-03 01:56:34 / January 3, 2019 @ 1:56 am.

The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakes, Gateway, Tanaina (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 19 km WSW of Anchorage, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.2558° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.014° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km WSW of Anchorage, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-03 01:56:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-03 02:20:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	90	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.66	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	220	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,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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 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	ak0194zjjtd	Id of event.
Event Code	0194zjjtd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0194zjjtd,us2000izyk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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