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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Anchorage in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.359S, -149.9259WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -149.9259 West, latitude 61.359 North, depth = 29 km. The temblor was reported at 10:26:28 / 10:26 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 19:26:28 / November 30, 2018 @ 7:26 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: at00pj0u04. Unique identifier: at00pj0u04. A tsunami warning has been issued near Anchorage in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 29 km (18 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sterling, Palmer, Gateway (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 15 km N of Anchorage, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9259° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.359° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km N of Anchorage, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-30 19:26:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-30 19:30:00 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 REVIEWED Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 1 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 369 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4060385 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57.599995392 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 at00pj0u04 Id of event.
Event Code 00pj0u04 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pj0u04, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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