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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Old Iliamna in Alaska


Earthquake location 58.9119S, -154.907WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 93 km S of Old Iliamna, Alaska (58 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 194.6 km (121 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/02/16 / 2016-02-18 22:08:20 / February 18, 2016 @ 10:08 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:08:20 / 1:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -154.907 West, latitude 58.9119 North, depth = 194.6 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004qx4. Id of event: us10004qx4.

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 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 93 km S of Old Iliamna, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.907° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.9119° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 194.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km S of Old Iliamna, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-18 22:08:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-18 23:57:20 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 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.82 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 us10004qx4 Id of event.
Event Code 10004qx4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004qx4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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