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

Posted by admin on May 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.2985S, -178.3156WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 55 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska (34 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/04/16 / 2016-04-09 08:23:50 / April 9, 2016 @ 8:23 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13421791, us20005gke. Id of event: us20005gke. The temblor was reported at 23:23:50 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.41 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -178.3156° West, 51.2985° North, depth 29.41 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 55 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.3156° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km E of Amatignak 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 2016-04-09 08:23:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-05 06:19:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 0.403 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 us20005gke Id of event.
Event Code 20005gke An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13421791,us20005gke, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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