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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Willow in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 25, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.645S, -150.3369WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Willow in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: ak019gi2k328. Unique identifier: ak019gi2k328. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:20:47 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 17.3 km, -150.3369° West, 61.645° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.3 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/19 / 2019-12-25 21:20:47 / December 25, 2019 @ 9:20 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Elmendorf Air Force Base. The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km SW of Willow, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.3369° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SW of Willow, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-25 21:20:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-25 21:28:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 139 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 0.86 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 ak019gi2k328 Id of event.
Event Code 019gi2k328 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019gi2k328, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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