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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.1431S, -173.8832WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 22 km ESE of Atka, Alaska (14 miles). Exact location, longitude -173.8832° West, latitude 52.1431° North, depth = 80 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 80 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/11/15 / 2015-11-05 14:13:54 / November 5, 2015 @ 2:13 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ak11897466. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11897466. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:13:54 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 22 km ESE of Atka, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.8832° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.1431° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km ESE of Atka, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-05 14:13:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-14 02:19:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1859513 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 287.99997696 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 ak11897466 Id of event.
Event Code 11897466 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11897466, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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