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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Anchorage in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 13, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.3027S, -150.1071WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska. Unique identifier: ak0193b5z4r3. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0193b5z4r3. Global time and date of event 13/03/19 / 2019-03-13 05:51:21 / March 13, 2019 @ 5:51 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 38.3 km, -150.1071° West, 61.3027° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.3 km (24 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:51:21 / 8:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 15 km (9 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 four, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km NW of Anchorage, 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 -150.1071° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.3027° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NW of Anchorage, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-13 05:51:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-13 06:36:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.78 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 ak0193b5z4r3 Id of event.
Event Code 0193b5z4r3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0193b5z4r3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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