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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Big Lake in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.3718S, -150.0878WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/02/19 / 2019-02-22 02:09:46 / February 22, 2019 @ 2:09 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.5 km (10 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0192foqai5. Unique identifier: ak0192foqai5. Exact location of event, depth 15.5 km, -150.0878° West, 61.3718° North. The temblor was detected at 17:09:46 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 18 km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0878° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.3718° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SSW 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 2019-02-22 02:09:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-22 02:14:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 158 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 0.95 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 ak0192foqai5 Id of event.
Event Code 0192foqai5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0192foqai5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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