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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Sutton-Alpine in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.675S, -147.5652WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Sutton-Alpine in Alaska on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 16.8 km, -147.5652° West, 61.675° North. Global time and date of event 17/11/15 / 2015-11-17 20:42:18 / November 17, 2015 @ 8:42 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11988347. Id of event: ak11988347. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.8 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 11:42:18 / 11:42 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Palmer (c. 5 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 69 km E of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -147.5652° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km E of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-17 20:42:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-17 20:53:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 222 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 0.84 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 ak11988347 Id of event.
Event Code 11988347 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11988347, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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