Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Bear Creek in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Bear Creek in Alaska. Event id: ak019a94eia7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019a94eia7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/08/19 / 2019-08-11 19:41:42 / August 11, 2019 @ 7:41 pm. Exact location of event, depth 25.6 km, -149.5155° West, 60.4797° North. The temblor was reported at 10:41:42 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.6 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sterling (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days four hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km N of Bear Creek, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.5155° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.4797° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km N of Bear Creek, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-11 19:41:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-11 19:44:52	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	0.82 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	ak019a94eia7	Id of event.
Event Code	019a94eia7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak019a94eia7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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