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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Big Lake in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.4634S, -149.9156WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. The temblor was picked up at 13:59:38 / 1:59 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.66 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 31.66 km, -149.9156° West, 61.4634° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 22:59:38 / November 30, 2018 @ 10:59 pm. Event id: us1000hyx9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hyx9.

Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 6 km SSE of Big Lake, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9156° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.4634° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSE of Big Lake, 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 22:59:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-01 06:08:12 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 1.84 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 0.306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us1000hyx9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hyx9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hyx9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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