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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.2308S, -178.2153WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 62 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska (39 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 07:00:30 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/01/19 / 2019-01-05 19:00:30 / January 5, 2019 @ 7:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -178.2153° West, 51.2308° North, depth 27.19 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0198l01g1, us2000j0ml. Id of event: us2000j0ml. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.19 km (17 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.2153° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2308° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km E 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 2019-01-05 19:00:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-05 21:54:12 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 0.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 261 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 us2000j0ml Id of event.
Event Code 2000j0ml An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0198l01g1,us2000j0ml, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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