Light earthquake: M4.2 quake strikes near Talkeetna in Alaska

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (mg/mb) has occurred on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Talkeetna in Alaska. The temblor was reported at 01:36:14 / 1:36 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-19 10:36:14 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -150.6282 West, latitude 62.1228 North, depth 35 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lakes, Wasilla, Knik-Fairview.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.6282° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	62.1228° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km SW of Talkeetna, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-01-19 10:36:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-01-19 10:57:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.87	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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		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	273	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	usak	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	0.449	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	usc000th3u	Id of event.
Event Code	c000th3u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	usc000th3uak11488818	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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talkeetnagirl

A hard fast jerk here. Woke us up at 1:36 am.

January 19, 2015

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