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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Kalifornsky in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.5105S, -151.6356WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Kalifornsky in Alaska. The epicenter was at a depth of 54.6 km (34 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 18:27:32 / February 16, 2019 @ 6:27 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -151.6356 West, latitude 60.5105 North, depth = 54.6 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:27:32 / 9:27 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0192614yvt. Unique identifier: ak0192614yvt.

Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sterling, Kalifornsky, Kenai.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km WNW of Kalifornsky, Alaska. This data 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 -151.6356° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.5105° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WNW of Kalifornsky, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-16 18:27:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-16 18:33:42 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 0.71 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 ak0192614yvt Id of event.
Event Code 0192614yvt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0192614yvt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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