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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Anchorage in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.9043S, -149.7832WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska. Global time and date of event 29/09/19 / 2019-09-29 14:05:54 / September 29, 2019 @ 2:05 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ak019ci2jnii, us70005nhn. Unique identifier: ak019ci2jnii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.9 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -149.7832° West, latitude 60.9043° North, depth = 33.9 km. The temblor was detected at 05:05:54 / 5:05 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gateway, Wasilla, Knik-Fairview (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Elmendorf Air Force Base (c. 6 600 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 35 km S of Anchorage, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.7832° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.9043° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km S 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 2019-09-29 14:05:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-08 00:28:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 1 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 149 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 0.63 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 ak019ci2jnii Id of event.
Event Code 019ci2jnii An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019ci2jnii,us70005nhn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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