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

Posted by admin on October 7, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.9216S, -150.1094WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -150.1094° West, latitude 60.9216° North, depth = 22.4 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:25:58 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 22.4 km (14 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/18 / 2018-10-07 09:25:58 / October 7, 2018 @ 9:25 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: ak20272678. Event ids that are associated: ak20272678.

The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Elmendorf Air Force Base (c. 6 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai, Knik-Fairview, Sterling (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 34 km SSW of Anchorage, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.1094° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.9216° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSW of Anchorage, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-07 09:25:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-07 09:34:17 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 1.38 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 ak20272678 Id of event.
Event Code 20272678 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20272678, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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