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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 49.9824S, -177.2529WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 193 km SE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (120 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000ad93. Event ids that are associated: ak16539927, us2000ad93. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.81 km (27 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -177.2529° West, 49.9824° North, depth 42.81 km. Global time and date of event 16/08/17 / 2017-08-16 17:52:55 / August 16, 2017 @ 5:52 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:52:55 / 5:52 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 193 km SE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.2529° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.9824° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 193km SE of Amatignak 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 2017-08-16 17:52:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-11 13:29:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 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 129 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 1.78 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 264 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 us2000ad93 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ad93 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16539927,us2000ad93, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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