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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Susitna in Alaska

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Susitna in Alaska on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Susitna in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 55.8 km, -151.0067° West, 61.6487° North. The temblor was detected at 08:59:30 / 8:59 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 55.8 km (35 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak020cwv4p5l, at00qhtqb6. Unique identifier: ak020cwv4p5l. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/20 / 2020-10-07 08:59:30 / October 7, 2020 @ 8:59 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lakes, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Eagle River (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighty-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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km WNW of Susitna, Alaska.

Alaska Anchorage Eagle River Elmendorf Air Force Base Knik-Fairview Lakes Susitna Tanaina United States Wasilla

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.0067° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.6487° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km WNW of Susitna, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-07 08:59:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-07 09:05:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	260	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	0.66 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	ak020cwv4p5l	Id of event.
Event Code	020cwv4p5l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak020cwv4p5l,at00qhtqb6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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