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


Earthquake location 63.0689S, -150.7132WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 88 km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska (55 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 125.7 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -150.7132° West, latitude 63.0689° North, depth = 125.7 km. Event id: ak11733194. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11733194. The temblor was detected at 07:12:31 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/15 / 2015-10-07 15:12:31 / October 7, 2015 @ 3:12 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 88 km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.7132° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.0689° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 125.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km NNW 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 2015-10-07 15:12:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-07 16:08:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 0.71 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 ak11733194 Id of event.
Event Code 11733194 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11733194, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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