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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 63 km NW of Fort Yukon, Alaska


Earthquake location 66.9285S, -146.382WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 63 km NW of Fort Yukon, Alaska (39 miles) on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -146.382 West, latitude 66.9285 North, depth = 10 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:03:45 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007h86. Unique identifier: us60007h86. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 13:03:45 / January 27, 2020 @ 1:03 pm.

Each 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 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 63 km NW of Fort Yukon, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -146.382° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 66.9285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NW of Fort Yukon, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-27 13:03:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-27 14:08:34 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 0.583 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us60007h86 Id of event.
Event Code 60007h86 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007h86, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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