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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.613S, 178.8704WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 45 km SE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (28 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:10:03 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/02/16 / 2016-02-24 12:10:03 / February 24, 2016 @ 12:10 pm. Id of earthquake: us10004tpc. Event ids that are associated: ak12925342, us10004tpc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 108.3 km (67 miles). Exact location, longitude 178.8704° East, latitude 51.613° North, depth = 108.3 km.

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

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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. 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: 45 km SE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.8704° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.613° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SE of Little Sitkin 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 2016-02-24 12:10:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-16 10:18:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 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 us10004tpc Id of event.
Event Code 10004tpc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12925342,us10004tpc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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