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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Bear Creek in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.6104S, -149.5557WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Bear Creek in Alaska. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/08/19 / 2019-08-30 02:46:27 / August 30, 2019 @ 2:46 am. The temblor was detected at 17:46:27 / 5:46 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak019b49iru2. Event ids that are associated: ak019b49iru2. Exact location of event, depth 16 km, -149.5557° West, 60.6104° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eagle River, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Elmendorf Air Force Base (c. 6 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 50 km N of Bear Creek, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.5557° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.6104° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km 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 2019-08-30 02:46:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-30 02:51:02 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 168 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 0.94 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 ak019b49iru2 Id of event.
Event Code 019b49iru2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019b49iru2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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