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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Circle in Alaska


Earthquake location 66.3298S, -142.2102WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 100 km NE of Circle, Alaska (62 miles) on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak0192hcvu5v, us2000jlw8. Unique identifier: ak0192hcvu5v. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -142.2102 West, latitude 66.3298 North, depth = 1.6 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.6 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/02/19 / 2019-02-23 03:13:04 / February 23, 2019 @ 3:13 am. The temblor was picked up at 18:13:04 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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: 100 km NE of Circle, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -142.2102° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 66.3298° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km NE of Circle, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-23 03:13:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-23 03:27:39 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,us, 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 0.83 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 ak0192hcvu5v Id of event.
Event Code 0192hcvu5v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0192hcvu5v,us2000jlw8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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