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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Lazy Mountain in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.5641S, -148.045WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Lazy Mountain in Alaska. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005mi1. Id of event: us60005mi1. Exact location of earthquake, -148.045° West, 61.5641° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 13:33:12 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/09/19 / 2019-09-23 22:33:12 / September 23, 2019 @ 10:33 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wasilla, Tanaina, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Palmer (c. 5 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Gateway (c. 5 600 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 48 km E of Lazy Mountain, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.045° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.5641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km E of Lazy Mountain, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-23 22:33:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 01:51:40 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 reviewed 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 0.249 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us60005mi1 Id of event.
Event Code 60005mi1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005mi1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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