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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 76 km SW of Homer, Alaska


Earthquake location 59.1273S, -152.4373WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Homer in Alaska on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.6 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:05:40 / 5:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -152.4373 West, latitude 59.1273 North, depth = 54.6 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/17 / 2017-10-20 03:05:40 / October 20, 2017 @ 3:05 am. Event id: ak17090446. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17090446.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-seven 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.

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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. 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: 76 km SW of Homer, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.4373° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.1273° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km SW 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 2017-10-20 03:05:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-20 03:13:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 0.6 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 ak17090446 Id of event.
Event Code 17090446 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17090446, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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