Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 3 km NE of Willow, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Willow in Alaska. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 23:52:24 / January 19, 2020 @ 11:52 pm. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:52:24 / 2:52 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60007azi. Event ids that are associated: us60007azi. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.77 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -149.9787° West, 61.7694° North, depth 39.77 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 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 Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Eagle River.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 3 km NE of Willow, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.9787° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.7694° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km NE 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	2020-01-19 23:52:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-20 00:06:50	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	1.786	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	148	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,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	0.069	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	us60007azi	Id of event.
Event Code	60007azi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007azi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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