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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 13 km SE of Soldotna, Alaska


Earthquake location 60.3906S, -150.9066WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Soldotna in Alaska. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/01/16 / 2016-01-25 06:51:20 / January 25, 2016 @ 6:51 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:51:20 / 9:51 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.7 km (32 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.9066 West, latitude 60.3906 North, depth = 51.7 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak12506388. Unique identifier: ak12506388.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Sterling. Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 13 km SE of Soldotna, 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 -150.9066° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.3906° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE of Soldotna, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-25 06:51:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-25 07:43:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.68 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 ak12506388 Id of event.
Event Code 12506388 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12506388, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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