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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Whittier in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.0237S, -148.9206WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Whittier in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: ak12419863. Unique identifier: ak12419863. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.6 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.9206 West, latitude 61.0237 North, depth = 12.6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 02:38:06 / January 4, 2016 @ 2:38 am. The temblor was reported at 17:38:06 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Meadow Lakes, Tanaina, Lakes. Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 30 km NNW of Whittier, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.9206° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.0237° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km NNW of Whittier, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-04 02:38:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-04 03:11:50 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 reviewed 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 199 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 0.55 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 ak12419863 Id of event.
Event Code 12419863 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12419863, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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