Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Yunaska Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 113 km NNE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (70 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak11680180. Unique identifier: ak11680180. Exact location of event, longitude -170.1941 West, latitude 53.6018 North, depth = 133.2 km. The temblor was reported at 08:25:06 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 19:25:06 / August 8, 2015 @ 7:25 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 133.2 km (83 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 113 km NNE of Yunaska Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-170.1941° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.6018° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	133.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	113km NNE of Yunaska Island, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-08 19:25:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-17 09:49:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.797704	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	183.599985312	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	ak11680180	Id of event.
Event Code	11680180	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11680180,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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