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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 49 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska

Posted by admin on November 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.8834S, -152.6954WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 83.5 km (52 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/11/16 / 2016-11-09 23:41:17 / November 9, 2016 @ 11:41 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak14311947. Unique identifier: ak14311947. Exact location of earthquake, -152.6954° West, 59.8834° North, depth 83.5 km. The temblor was reported at 14:41:17 / 2:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer. Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km WNW 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 -152.6954° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.8834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km WNW 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 2016-11-09 23:41:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-09 23:49:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 0.8 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 ak14311947 Id of event.
Event Code 14311947 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak14311947, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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