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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Homer in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.4188S, -151.358WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Homer in Alaska on Monday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:48:51 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -151.358° West, latitude 59.4188° North, depth = 34.4 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/05/17 / 2017-05-23 08:48:51 / May 23, 2017 @ 8:48 am. Unique identifier: ak16109758. Ids that are associated to the event: ak16109758. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.4 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Close 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).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 27 km SSE of Homer, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.4188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SSE of Homer, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-23 08:48:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-23 09:04:05 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 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 0.73 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 ak16109758 Id of event.
Event Code 16109758 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16109758, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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