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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Y in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 62.0172S, -150.5103WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Y in Alaska. Unique identifier: ak11746701. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11746701. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/10/15 / 2015-10-23 21:51:18 / October 23, 2015 @ 9:51 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.5103 West, latitude 62.0172 North, depth = 58.4 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 58.4 km (36 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:51:18 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wasilla, Knik-Fairview, Tanaina (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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. 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: 38 km WSW of Y, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.5103° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.0172° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km WSW of Y, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-23 21:51:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-23 22:22:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 129 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 0.64 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 ak11746701 Id of event.
Event Code 11746701 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11746701, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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