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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Sutton-Alpine in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 29, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.6419S, -147.6999WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Sutton-Alpine in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: ak17113008. Unique identifier: ak17113008. Exact location of event, depth 16.8 km, -147.6999° West, 61.6419° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.8 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 29/10/17 / 2017-10-29 10:20:04 / October 29, 2017 @ 10:20 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:20:04 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Palmer (c. 5 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer (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 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 63 km ESE of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -147.6999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.6419° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km ESE of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-29 10:20:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-29 10:32:47 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 0.71 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 ak17113008 Id of event.
Event Code 17113008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17113008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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