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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Anchor Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on September 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.7042S, -152.7603WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/09/16 / 2016-09-20 22:54:55 / September 20, 2016 @ 10:54 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 88.5 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak14006442. Id of event: ak14006442. The temblor was reported at 14:54:55 / 2:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.7603 West, latitude 59.7042 North, depth = 88.5 km.

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 52 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.7603° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.7042° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km W of Anchor 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 2016-09-20 22:54:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-20 23:03:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.48 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 ak14006442 Id of event.
Event Code 14006442 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak14006442, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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