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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Larsen Bay in Alaska


Earthquake location 57.5114S, -155.6889WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 102 km W of Larsen Bay, Alaska (63 miles) on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11667533. Id of event: ak11667533. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/15 / 2015-08-02 10:10:32 / August 2, 2015 @ 10:10 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 101 km (63 miles). The temblor was reported at 02:10:32 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.6889° West, latitude 57.5114° North, depth = 101 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 102 km W of Larsen Bay, 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 -155.6889° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.5114° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km W of Larsen Bay, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-02 10:10:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-03 17:32:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3575295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122.399990208 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 ak11667533 Id of event.
Event Code 11667533 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11667533, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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