Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Soldotna in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Soldotna in Alaska. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13665328. Id of event: ak13665328. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:23:14 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/06/16 / 2016-06-19 20:23:14 / June 19, 2016 @ 8:23 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62.3 km (39 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.0145 West, latitude 60.4993 North, depth = 62.3 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Kenai, Sterling. Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ENE of Soldotna, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.0145° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.4993° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km ENE of Soldotna, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-19 20:23:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-19 20:59:38	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	121	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	0.66 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	ak13665328	Id of event.
Event Code	13665328	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13665328,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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