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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 61 km S of Sand Point, Alaska


Earthquake location 54.7884S, -160.5595WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 61 km S of Sand Point, Alaska (38 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 00:48:15 / 12:48 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0196cdt2yz, us70003tyh. Unique identifier: us70003tyh. Exact location of event, longitude -160.5595 West, latitude 54.7884 North, depth = 19.51 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.51 km (12 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/05/19 / 2019-05-18 09:48:15 / May 18, 2019 @ 9:48 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km S of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.5595° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.7884° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km S of Sand Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-18 09:48:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-16 08:05:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 0.563 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us70003tyh Id of event.
Event Code 70003tyh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0196cdt2yz,us70003tyh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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