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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 53 km SSE of Yunaska Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.2179S, -170.2837WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 53 km SSE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (33 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -170.2837 West, latitude 52.2179 North, depth = 52.9 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 00:01:04 / May 8, 2016 @ 12:01 am. The temblor was detected at 13:01:04 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.9 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak13571059, us10005h8r. Unique identifier: us10005h8r.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and eleven 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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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. 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: 53 km SSE of Yunaska Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.2837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SSE 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 2016-05-08 00:01:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-28 00:48:29 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 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 0.67 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 us10005h8r Id of event.
Event Code 10005h8r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13571059,us10005h8r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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