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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Sutton-Alpine in Alaska


Earthquake location 62.0985S, -149.1389WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Sutton-Alpine in Alaska on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13607627. Id of event: ak13607627. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/05/16 / 2016-05-27 04:52:53 / May 27, 2016 @ 4:52 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 19 km (12 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -149.1389° West, 62.0985° North, depth 19 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:52:53 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Knik-Fairview, Wasilla, Gateway. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 36 km NNW of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.1389° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.0985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km NNW of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-27 04:52:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-27 05:14:38 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 0.68 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 ak13607627 Id of event.
Event Code 13607627 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13607627, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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