Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 65 km NNE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 65 km NNE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (40 miles) on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.4 km (13 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/06/16 / 2016-06-03 10:05:11 / June 3, 2016 @ 10:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 21.4 km, 178.8892° East, 52.4886° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13629548. Id of event: ak13629548. The temblor was picked up at 22:05:11 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km NNE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	178.8892° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.4886° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65km NNE 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	2016-06-03 10:05:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-08 22:39:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	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	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	0.25 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	ak13629548	Id of event.
Event Code	13629548	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13629548,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 65 km NNE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska

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