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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Fritz Creek in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.8259S, -151.4727WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Fritz Creek in Alaska on Friday. Event id: ak13638638. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13638638. Exact location of event, longitude -151.4727 West, latitude 59.8259 North, depth = 48.7 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:54:05 / 1:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.7 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 09:54:05 / June 10, 2016 @ 9:54 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalifornsky, Homer (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 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. Every 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 three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 14 km NW of Fritz Creek, 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 -151.4727° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.8259° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NW of Fritz Creek, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-10 09:54:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-10 10:09:40 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 0.66 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 ak13638638 Id of event.
Event Code 13638638 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13638638, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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