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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near King Salmon in Alaska


Earthquake location 57.8962S, -156.3593WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 89 km SSE of King Salmon, Alaska (55 miles). Exact location of event, depth 131 km, -156.3593° West, 57.8962° North. The temblor was detected at 17:46:32 / 5:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 131 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 02:46:32 / January 9, 2020 @ 2:46 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ak020exax56. Ids that are associated to the event: ak020exax56.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 89 km SSE of King Salmon, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.3593° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.8962° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km SSE of King Salmon, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-09 02:46:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-09 02:50:37 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 0.8 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 ak020exax56 Id of event.
Event Code 020exax56 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020exax56, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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