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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Meadow Lakes in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.6688S, -149.6165WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Meadow Lakes in Alaska on Sunday. Unique identifier: us6000bbca. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000bbca. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:06:24 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.55 km (20 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/08/20 / 2020-08-09 06:06:24 / August 9, 2020 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -149.6165° West, latitude 61.6688° North, depth = 32.55 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Eagle River (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (33 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km N of Meadow Lakes, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.6165° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.6688° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km N of Meadow Lakes, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-09 06:06:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-09 06:18:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 138 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 0.244 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us6000bbca Id of event.
Event Code 6000bbca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bbca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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