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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Kiska Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.5795S, 176.7803WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 178 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (111 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.6 km (9 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11682503. Id of event: ak11682503. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/15 / 2015-08-12 00:00:17 / August 12, 2015 @ 12:00 am. Exact location, longitude 176.7803° East, latitude 50.5795° North, depth = 14.6 km. The temblor was detected at 12:00:17 / 12:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 178 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska. This information 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 176.7803° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.5795° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 178km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-12 00:00:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-21 01:07:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 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 15 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 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 327.599973792 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 ak11682503 Id of event.
Event Code 11682503 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11682503, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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