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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 15 km SE of Y, Alaska


Earthquake location 62.0556S, -149.6484WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Y in Alaska. Id of earthquake: ak18414218. Event ids that are associated: ak18414218. Exact location of earthquake, -149.6484° West, 62.0556° North, depth 19.6 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:55:40 / 10:55 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/02/18 / 2018-02-08 19:55:40 / February 8, 2018 @ 7:55 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.6 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (38 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Knik-Fairview, Palmer, Gateway.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 15 km SE of Y, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.6484° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.0556° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SE of Y, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-08 19:55:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-08 20:04:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 138 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 0.66 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 ak18414218 Id of event.
Event Code 18414218 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18414218, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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