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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Sutton-Alpine in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 62.2122S, -148.5759WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Sutton-Alpine in Alaska on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.3 km (11 miles). Event id: ak019ywvm76. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019ywvm76. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:07:23 / 2:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -148.5759 West, latitude 62.2122 North, depth = 17.3 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/01/19 / 2019-01-21 11:07:23 / January 21, 2019 @ 11:07 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Palmer (c. 5 900 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 48 km NNE of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.5759° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.2122° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km NNE of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-21 11:07:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-21 11:17:35 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 129 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 0.71 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 ak019ywvm76 Id of event.
Event Code 019ywvm76 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019ywvm76, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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