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

Posted by admin on March 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 64.2465S, -148.4684WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from North Nenana in Alaska on Monday. Global time and date of event 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 18:19:23 / March 14, 2016 @ 6:19 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ak12976578. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12976578. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.4684 West, latitude 64.2465 North, depth = 10.1 km. The temblor was detected at 10:19:23 / 10:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.1 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Badger, College, Fairbanks (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 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 0 and in the last 365 days sixteen 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km SE of North Nenana, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.4684° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.2465° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km SE of North Nenana, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-14 18:19:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-14 18:37:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 0.97 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 ak12976578 Id of event.
Event Code 12976578 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12976578, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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