Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Sterling in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Sterling in Alaska. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.1 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.2684 West, latitude 60.8309 North, depth = 35.1 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/12/17 / 2017-12-08 18:21:20 / December 8, 2017 @ 6:21 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak17538426. Unique identifier: ak17538426. The temblor was reported at 09:21:20 / 9:21 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Elmendorf Air Force Base (c. 6 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Eagle River, Kenai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 42 km NE of Sterling, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.2684° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.8309° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km NE of Sterling, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-08 18:21:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-08 18:29:30	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	0.7 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	ak17538426	Id of event.
Event Code	17538426	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak17538426,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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