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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Fritz Creek in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.8726S, -151.1919WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Fritz Creek in Alaska on Thursday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:19:49 / 2:19 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/12/16 / 2016-12-15 23:19:49 / December 15, 2016 @ 11:19 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.1919 West, latitude 59.8726 North, depth = 39.7 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak14736229. Unique identifier: ak14736229. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.7 km (25 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Homer (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km NNE of Fritz Creek, 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 -151.1919° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.8726° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NNE of Fritz Creek, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-15 23:19:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-15 23:24:15 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 0.57 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 ak14736229 Id of event.
Event Code 14736229 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak14736229, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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