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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Big Lake in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.3781S, -150.0745WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Global time and date of event 08/12/18 / 2018-12-08 01:32:44 / December 8, 2018 @ 1:32 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.5 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 19.5 km, -150.0745° West, 61.3781° North. The temblor was picked up at 16:32:44 / 4:32 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak20464153. Event ids that are associated: ak20464153.

Event epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days three hundred and fifty-eight, in the past 30 days three hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirteen 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0745° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.3781° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-08 01:32:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-08 01:42:51 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 0.9 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 ak20464153 Id of event.
Event Code 20464153 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20464153, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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