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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Manley Hot Springs in Alaska


Earthquake location 64.8447S, -150.2057WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 26 km SE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska (16 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/20 / 2020-08-16 14:59:09 / August 16, 2020 @ 2:59 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000bfm5. Event ids that are associated: us6000bfm5. Exact location of event, longitude -150.2057 West, latitude 64.8447 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 14:59:09 / 2:59 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km SE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska. This information 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 -150.2057° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.8447° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km SE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-16 14:59:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-16 15:10:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 129 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 0.295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us6000bfm5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000bfm5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bfm5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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