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

Posted by admin on December 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 62.2984S, -151.0842WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 50 km W of Talkeetna, Alaska (31 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -151.0842 West, latitude 62.2984 North, depth = 87.6 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 87.6 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/12/18 / 2018-12-08 22:40:33 / December 8, 2018 @ 10:40 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:40:33 / 1:40 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak20470972. Ids that are associated to the event: ak20470972.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 50 km W of Talkeetna, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.0842° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.2984° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km W of Talkeetna, 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 22:40:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-08 22:45:06 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 1.41 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 ak20470972 Id of event.
Event Code 20470972 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20470972, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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