Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 6 km NW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (4 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:16:04 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10005gu1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13556918, us10005gu1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/16 / 2016-05-12 05:16:04 / May 12, 2016 @ 5:16 am. Exact location of earthquake, 178.447° East, 51.998° North, depth 104.7 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 104.7 km (65 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 6 km NW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	178.447° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.998° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	104.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km NW 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	2016-05-12 05:16:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-08 09:48:54	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 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	us10005gu1	Id of event.
Event Code	10005gu1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13556918,us10005gu1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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