Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Lazy Mountain in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Lazy Mountain in Alaska. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:53:24 / 5:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -147.8932 West, latitude 61.4568 North, depth = 13.4 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.4 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ak019ahb6lvs. Ids that are associated to the event: ak019ahb6lvs. Global time and date of event 16/08/19 / 2019-08-16 14:53:24 / August 16, 2019 @ 2:53 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tanaina, Wasilla, Lakes (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Palmer (c. 5 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Gateway (c. 5 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 59 km ESE of Lazy Mountain, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-147.8932° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.4568° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59km ESE of Lazy Mountain, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-16 14:53:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-16 15:00:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	189	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	0.88 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	ak019ahb6lvs	Id of event.
Event Code	019ahb6lvs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak019ahb6lvs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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