Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Anchorage in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska. The temblor was reported at 15:23:49 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/19 / 2019-12-08 00:23:49 / December 8, 2019 @ 12:23 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019fplxq3f. Id of event: ak019fplxq3f. Exact location of event, longitude -150.8231 West, latitude 61.2257 North, depth = 44.2 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.2 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Meadow Lakes, Kenai, Sterling. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 49 km W of Anchorage, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.8231° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.2257° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km W 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	2019-12-08 00:23:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-08 00:29:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	148	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	0.59 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	ak019fplxq3f	Id of event.
Event Code	019fplxq3f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak019fplxq3f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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