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

Posted by admin on March 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.7093S, -150.5911WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Sterling in Alaska. The temblor was picked up at 00:58:28 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/03/16 / 2016-03-08 09:58:28 / March 8, 2016 @ 9:58 am. Exact location of event, longitude -150.5911 West, latitude 60.7093 North, depth = 34.4 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak12959924. Unique identifier: ak12959924. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.4 km (21 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Anchorage, Kalifornsky, Kenai.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 21 km NNE of Sterling, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.5911° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.7093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NNE of Sterling, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-08 09:58:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-08 10:41:08 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 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 0.79 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 ak12959924 Id of event.
Event Code 12959924 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12959924, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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