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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Point Possession in Alaska

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Point Possession in Alaska. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/12/20 / 2020-12-04 20:45:19 / December 4, 2020 @ 8:45 pm. Unique identifier: ak020fkzd08l. Ids that are associated to the event: ak020fkzd08l. Exact location of event, longitude -150.2573 West, latitude 60.8614 North, depth = 38.2 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:45:19 / 8:45 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.2 km (24 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Elmendorf Air Force Base (c. 6 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Knik-Fairview, Kalifornsky, Kenai.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 24 km ESE of Point Possession, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.2573° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.8614° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km ESE of Point Possession, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-04 20:45:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-04 20:50:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	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	211	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	0.62 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	ak020fkzd08l	Id of event.
Event Code	020fkzd08l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak020fkzd08l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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