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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Yakutat in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.1101S, -138.0285WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 108 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska (67 miles) on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak12147689. Id of event: ak12147689. The temblor was picked up at 12:24:38 / 12:24 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/12/15 / 2015-12-06 21:24:38 / December 6, 2015 @ 9:24 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -138.0285 West, latitude 59.1101 North, depth = 1.5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.5 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 108 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -138.0285° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.1101° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-06 21:24:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-14 23:59:47 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 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 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 0.55 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 ak12147689 Id of event.
Event Code 12147689 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12147689, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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