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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.2777S, -175.0449WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 117 km SSW of Atka, Alaska (73 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/02/20 / 2020-02-13 15:44:39 / February 13, 2020 @ 3:44 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -175.0449° West, latitude 51.2777° North, depth = 12.4 km. Id of earthquake: ak020210uaca. Event ids that are associated: ak020210uaca. The temblor was picked up at 03:44:39 / 3:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.4 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 117 km SSW of Atka, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.0449° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2777° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km SSW of Atka, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-13 15:44:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-21 22:51:39 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 121 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 0.39 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 ak020210uaca Id of event.
Event Code 020210uaca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020210uaca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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