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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 54 km E of Old Iliamna, Alaska (34 miles) on Friday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:06:14 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 200 km (124 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -153.9755 West, latitude 59.6533 North, depth = 200 km. Global time and date of event 23/04/16 / 2016-04-23 01:06:14 / April 23, 2016 @ 1:06 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: ak13491125. Event ids that are associated: ak13491125.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km E of Old Iliamna, 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	-153.9755° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.6533° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	200 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54km E 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	2016-04-23 01:06:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-23 02:08:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	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	ak13491125	Id of event.
Event Code	13491125	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13491125,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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