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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Redoubt Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.256S, -153.2915WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 39 km SW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska (24 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -153.2915 West, latitude 60.256 North, depth = 166.6 km. The temblor was detected at 21:00:33 / 9:00 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak01920v7y25. Unique identifier: ak01920v7y25. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 166.6 km (104 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/02/19 / 2019-02-13 06:00:33 / February 13, 2019 @ 6:00 am.

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 0, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 39 km SW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.2915° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.256° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 166.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km SW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-13 06:00:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-13 06:11:33 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 0.61 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 ak01920v7y25 Id of event.
Event Code 01920v7y25 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak01920v7y25, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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