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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 18 km NW of North Nenana, Alaska


Earthquake location 64.7005S, -149.3696WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from North Nenana in Alaska on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.2 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -149.3696 West, latitude 64.7005 North, depth = 10.2 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak12461073. Id of event: ak12461073. Global time and date of event 14/01/16 / 2016-01-14 19:03:50 / January 14, 2016 @ 7:03 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:03:50 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fairbanks, College (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km NW of North Nenana, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.3696° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.7005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NW of North Nenana, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-14 19:03:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-14 19:17:43 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 4.11 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 0.78 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 ak12461073 Id of event.
Event Code 12461073 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12461073, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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