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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Sterling in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.8309S, -150.2684WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Sterling in Alaska. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.1 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.2684 West, latitude 60.8309 North, depth = 35.1 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/12/17 / 2017-12-08 18:21:20 / December 8, 2017 @ 6:21 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak17538426. Unique identifier: ak17538426. The temblor was reported at 09:21:20 / 9:21 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Elmendorf Air Force Base (c. 6 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Eagle River, Kenai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 42 km NE of Sterling, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.2684° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.8309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km NE of Sterling, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-08 18:21:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-08 18:29:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 0.7 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 ak17538426 Id of event.
Event Code 17538426 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17538426, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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