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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 109 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska


Earthquake location 53.9261S, -163.9753WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 109 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska (68 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -163.9753 West, latitude 53.9261 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/03/20 / 2020-03-08 03:36:58 / March 8, 2020 @ 3:36 am. The temblor was picked up at 16:36:58 / 4:36 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70008m9k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak02034ijqnz, us70008m9k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days ninety-eight 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 109 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.9753° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.9261° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109km SSW of False Pass, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-08 03:36:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-03 21:03:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 0.852 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 us70008m9k Id of event.
Event Code 70008m9k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02034ijqnz,us70008m9k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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