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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 110 km NW of Fort McPherson, Canada


Earthquake location 68.234S, -136.4623WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 110 km NW of Fort McPherson, Canada (68 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 27.3 km (17 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak12439392. Unique identifier: ak12439392. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/01/16 / 2016-01-01 05:10:42 / January 1, 2016 @ 5:10 am. The temblor was reported at 21:10:42 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -136.4623° West, 68.234° North, depth 27.3 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 110 km NW of Fort McPherson, Canada. This data 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 -136.4623° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 68.234° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km NW of Fort McPherson, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-01 05:10:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-05 23:23:42 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 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 0.71 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 ak12439392 Id of event.
Event Code 12439392 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12439392, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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