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


Earthquake location 51.0684S, 179.9378WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 70 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (43 miles) on Tuesday. Event id: ak0191zawtia. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0191zawtia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 23:42:45 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/02/19 / 2019-02-12 11:42:45 / February 12, 2019 @ 11:42 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 179.9378 East, latitude 51.0684 North, depth = 32 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information 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 179.9378° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km WSW 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 2019-02-12 11:42:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-28 23:31:04 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 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 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 0.48 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 ak0191zawtia Id of event.
Event Code 0191zawtia An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0191zawtia, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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