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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8252S, 178.5223WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 13 km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (8 miles). Global time and date of event 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 05:42:31 / August 8, 2015 @ 5:42 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 107.5 km (67 miles). Event id: us100032te. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11672928, us100032te. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 178.5223 East, latitude 51.8252 North, depth = 107.5 km. The temblor was reported at 20:42:31 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km S of Little Sitkin Island, 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 178.5223° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8252° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km S of Little Sitkin 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 05:42:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-02 06:51:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 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 us100032te Id of event.
Event Code 100032te An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11672928,us100032te, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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