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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 100 km SE of Yunaska Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.0654S, -169.5499WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 100 km SE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (62 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 53.1 km, -169.5499° West, 52.0654° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/09/15 / 2015-09-10 16:48:41 / September 10, 2015 @ 4:48 pm. Id of earthquake: ak11703987. Event ids that are associated: ak11703987. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:48:41 / 5:48 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.1 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 100 km SE of Yunaska Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.5499° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0654° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km SE 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 2015-09-10 16:48:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-16 17:40:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 14 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 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230.399981568 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 ak11703987 Id of event.
Event Code 11703987 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11703987, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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