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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Nikiski in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.0812S, -152.1209WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Nikiski in Alaska. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11745132. Id of event: ak11745132. Exact location of earthquake, -152.1209° West, 61.0812° North, depth 103.2 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/10/15 / 2015-10-21 15:22:52 / October 21, 2015 @ 3:22 pm. The temblor was picked up at 07:22:52 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 103.2 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 62 km NW of Nikiski, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.1209° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.0812° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km NW of Nikiski, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-21 15:22:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-21 15:58:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 0.57 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 ak11745132 Id of event.
Event Code 11745132 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11745132, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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