Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Anchorage in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ak20428533. Event ids that are associated: ak20428533. Exact location of event, longitude -150.0851 West, latitude 61.3352 North, depth = 20 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/12/18 / 2018-12-02 06:13:32 / December 2, 2018 @ 6:13 am. The temblor was reported at 21:13:32 / 9:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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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: 16 km NW of Anchorage, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.0851° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.3352° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NW 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	2018-12-02 06:13:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-02 06:20:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	0	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	0.89 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	ak20428533	Id of event.
Event Code	20428533	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak20428533,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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