Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Anchor Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. Global time and date of event 27/10/17 / 2017-10-27 20:03:15 / October 27, 2017 @ 8:03 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ak17105258. Unique identifier: ak17105258. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.076 West, latitude 60.0508 North, depth = 73.4 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73.4 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:03:15 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Homer (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 33 km NNW of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-152.076° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.0508° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	73.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km NNW 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	2017-10-27 20:03:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-27 20:10:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	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	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	ak17105258	Id of event.
Event Code	17105258	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak17105258,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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