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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7694S, 179.3205WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 27 km SW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (17 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 179.3205 East, latitude 51.7694 North, depth = 177.96 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 177.96 km (111 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:44:02 / 12:44 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/10/17 / 2017-10-01 10:44:02 / October 1, 2017 @ 10:44 am. Id of earthquake: us2000b24u. Event ids that are associated: ak16990815, us2000b24u.

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 27 km SW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.3205° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7694° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 177.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SW of Semisopochnoi 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 2017-10-01 10:44:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-14 06:24:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 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 0.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us2000b24u Id of event.
Event Code 2000b24u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16990815,us2000b24u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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