Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Old Iliamna in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 127 km SE of Old Iliamna, Alaska (79 miles). Id of earthquake: us60007l25. Event ids that are associated: us60007l25. The temblor was detected at 20:09:32 / 8:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -153.5432° West, latitude 58.844° North, depth = 3.44 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/20 / 2020-01-31 05:09:32 / January 31, 2020 @ 5:09 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.44 km (2 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 127 km SE of Old Iliamna, 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	-153.5432° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	58.844° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	127km SE of Old Iliamna, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-31 05:09:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-31 05:43:13	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	129	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	0.1	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us60007l25	Id of event.
Event Code	60007l25	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007l25,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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