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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 113 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska (70 miles) on Friday. Exact location, longitude -161.4594° West, latitude 54.4751° North, depth = 24 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/04/16 / 2016-04-30 06:49:32 / April 30, 2016 @ 6:49 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13504839, us10005g6k. Id of event: us10005g6k. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:49:32 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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.

How would you describe the shaking?

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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 113 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska.

Alaska Sand Point

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-161.4594° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.4751° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	113km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-30 06:49:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-21 11:55:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	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	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	,ak,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	0.52 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	us10005g6k	Id of event.
Event Code	10005g6k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13504839,us10005g6k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

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

How would you describe the shaking?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information