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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Anchor Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.0374S, -152.2006WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. Exact location of event, depth 50 km, -152.2006° West, 60.0374° North. Global time and date of event 24/08/16 / 2016-08-24 03:34:22 / August 24, 2016 @ 3:34 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13876352. Id of event: ak13876352. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 19:34:22 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Homer. Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 35 km NW of Anchor Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.2006° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.0374° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km NW of Anchor Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-24 03:34:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-24 03:55:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 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 129 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 0.55 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 ak13876352 Id of event.
Event Code 13876352 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13876352, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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