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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Sterling in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.4342S, -150.2225WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Sterling in Alaska on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 29.6 km (18 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:02:32 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -150.2225° West, latitude 60.4342° North, depth = 29.6 km. Event id: ak019fb32njc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019fb32njc. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/11/19 / 2019-11-29 22:02:32 / November 29, 2019 @ 10:02 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (36 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalifornsky, Kenai, Sterling (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 31 km ESE of Sterling, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.2225° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.4342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km ESE of Sterling, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-29 22:02:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-29 23:57:19 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 reviewed 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 0.94 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 ak019fb32njc Id of event.
Event Code 019fb32njc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019fb32njc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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