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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 28 km WSW of Big Lake, Alaska

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 03:30:27 / December 16, 2019 @ 3:30 am. Exact location, longitude -150.4362° West, latitude 61.4029° North, depth = 55.8 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Big Lake in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 18:30:27 / 6:30 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak019g2w296x. Event ids that are associated: ak019g2w296x, at00q2l5qr. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.8 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km WSW of Big Lake, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Alaska Anchorage Big Lake Eagle River Gateway Knik-Fairview Lakes Palmer Tanaina United States Wasilla

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.4362° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.4029° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km WSW 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	2019-12-16 03:30:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-16 03:34:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	1	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	272	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,at,	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	0.53 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	ak019g2w296x	Id of event.
Event Code	019g2w296x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak019g2w296x,at00q2l5qr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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