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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Big Lake in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.3799S, -150.0449WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. The temblor was detected at 23:54:09 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.1 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/01/19 / 2019-01-26 08:54:09 / January 26, 2019 @ 8:54 am. Event id: ak019175235j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019175235j. Exact location of event, longitude -150.0449 West, latitude 61.3799 North, depth = 20.1 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 20 km (12 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes.

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 six, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0449° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.3799° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-26 08:54:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-26 08:57:33 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 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 0.8 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 ak019175235j Id of event.
Event Code 019175235j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019175235j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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