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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, Southern Alaska


Earthquake location 59.2017S, -153.7995WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Southern Alaska (0 miles). Unique identifier: ak12797030. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12797030. Global time and date of event 11/02/16 / 2016-02-11 02:42:02 / February 11, 2016 @ 2:42 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 02:42:02 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -153.7995 West, latitude 59.2017 North, depth = 117.3 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 117.3 km (73 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.7995° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.2017° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Southern Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-11 02:42:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-15 18:39:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 automatic 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2838676 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140.399988768 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 ak12797030 Id of event.
Event Code 12797030 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12797030, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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