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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Bear Creek in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 3, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.2878S, -149.9213WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Bear Creek in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.9213 West, latitude 60.2878 North, depth = 24 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/11/15 / 2015-11-03 02:49:30 / November 3, 2015 @ 2:49 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Id of earthquake: ak11768400. Event ids that are associated: ak11768400. The temblor was detected at 17:49:30 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalifornsky, Sterling (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 32 km WNW of Bear Creek, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9213° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.2878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km WNW of Bear Creek, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-03 02:49:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-03 03:01:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 121 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 0.81 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 ak11768400 Id of event.
Event Code 11768400 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11768400, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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