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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Homer in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 31, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.3335S, -151.9484WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Homer in Alaska. Global time and date of event 31/01/19 / 2019-01-31 13:59:33 / January 31, 2019 @ 1:59 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: ak0191fhr3zs. Event ids that are associated: ak0191fhr3zs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.5 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:59:33 / 4:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -151.9484° West, latitude 59.3335° North, depth = 43.5 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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: 41 km SSW of Homer, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.9484° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.3335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSW of Homer, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-31 13:59:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-31 14:10:09 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 0.54 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 ak0191fhr3zs Id of event.
Event Code 0191fhr3zs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0191fhr3zs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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