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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.0887S, -176.4212WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 135 km N of Adak, Alaska (84 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.9 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/11/15 / 2015-11-05 21:13:45 / November 5, 2015 @ 9:13 pm. Id of earthquake: us10003y9t. Event ids that are associated: us10003y9t. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:13:45 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -176.4212 West, latitude 53.0887 North, depth = 32.9 km.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 135 km N of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.4212° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.0887° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km N of Adak, 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 21:13:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 22:50:33 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,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 1.021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 289 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 us10003y9t Id of event.
Event Code 10003y9t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003y9t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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