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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Talkeetna in Alaska


Earthquake location 62.2092S, -151.1997WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 58 km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska (36 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 05:41:35 / 5:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -151.1997° West, latitude 62.2092° North, depth = 74 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74 km (46 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019452y61d, us2000k80k. Id of event: ak019452y61d. Global time and date of event 31/03/19 / 2019-03-31 14:41:35 / March 31, 2019 @ 2:41 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 58 km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.1997° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.2092° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-31 14:41:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-31 14:58:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.59 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 249 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,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 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 ak019452y61d Id of event.
Event Code 019452y61d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019452y61d,us2000k80k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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