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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Ester in Alaska


Earthquake location 64.6563S, -148.3191WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Ester in Alaska. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20001110. Id of event: ak20001110. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/08/18 / 2018-08-01 04:57:44 / August 1, 2018 @ 4:57 am. The temblor was detected at 19:57:44 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.8 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -148.3191 West, latitude 64.6563 North, depth = 9.8 km.

Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Badger, Fairbanks, College (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km SW of Ester, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.3191° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.6563° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SW of Ester, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-01 04:57:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-01 05:06:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 0.77 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 ak20001110 Id of event.
Event Code 20001110 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20001110, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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