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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Central Alaska


Earthquake location 64.4067S, -147.3969WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes Central Alaska kilometers (0 miles) from Central Alaska on Sunday. Id of earthquake: ak020aukzv2d. Event ids that are associated: ak020aukzv2d. The temblor was detected at 17:07:42 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/08/20 / 2020-08-23 17:07:42 / August 23, 2020 @ 5:07 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 5.4 km, -147.3969° West, 64.4067° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.4 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was College, Fairbanks, Badger (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Central Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -147.3969° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.4067° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Central Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-23 17:07:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-23 18:39:43 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 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 0.88 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 ak020aukzv2d Id of event.
Event Code 020aukzv2d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020aukzv2d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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