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Light earthquake 4 mag, 26 km SSE of Knik-Fairview, Alaska


Earthquake location 61.2762S, -149.3913WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Knik-Fairview in Alaska on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 20:18:58 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/03/16 / 2016-03-28 04:18:58 / March 28, 2016 @ 4:18 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.3913 West, latitude 61.2762 North, depth = 21.3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.3 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ak13114583. Event ids that are associated: us20005cud, ak13114583.

Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Meadow Lakes, Tanaina, Palmer (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 26 km SSE of Knik-Fairview, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.3913° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.2762° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SSE of Knik-Fairview, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-28 04:18:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-28 05:04:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 90 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.44 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 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 273 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 ,us,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 0.65 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 ak13114583 Id of event.
Event Code 13114583 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005cud,ak13114583, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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