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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 48 km E of Akutan, Alaska


Earthquake location 54.0852S, -165.0388WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 48 km E of Akutan, Alaska (30 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019dqoux41, us7000638l. Id of event: us7000638l. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.7 km (52 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -165.0388 West, latitude 54.0852 North, depth = 83.7 km. The temblor was reported at 02:04:31 / 2:04 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/10/19 / 2019-10-26 12:04:31 / October 26, 2019 @ 12:04 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km E of Akutan, 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 -165.0388° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.0852° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km E of Akutan, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-26 12:04:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-22 12:52:34 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 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 0.389 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us7000638l Id of event.
Event Code 7000638l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019dqoux41,us7000638l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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