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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 56 km E of Lazy Mountain, Alaska


Earthquake location 61.559S, -147.8976WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Lazy Mountain in Alaska on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 10:56:52 / December 16, 2019 @ 10:56 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 13.5 km, -147.8976° West, 61.559° North. The temblor was reported at 01:56:52 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.5 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ak019g30dwyk. Ids that are associated to the event: ak019g30dwyk.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wasilla, Tanaina, Lakes. Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Palmer (c. 5 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Gateway (c. 5 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 56 km E of Lazy Mountain, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -147.8976° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.559° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km E of Lazy Mountain, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-16 10:56:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-16 11:00:21 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 178 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 0.71 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 ak019g30dwyk Id of event.
Event Code 019g30dwyk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019g30dwyk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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