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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 26 km WSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska

Posted by admin on December 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.8905S, 178.1281WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 26 km WSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (16 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 136.52 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/11/17 / 2017-11-11 15:16:59 / November 11, 2017 @ 3:16 pm. The temblor was picked up at 05:16:59 / 5:16 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17181367, us2000bnp3. Id of event: us2000bnp3. Exact location, longitude 178.1281° East, latitude 51.8905° North, depth = 136.52 km.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 26 km WSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.1281° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8905° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 136.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km WSW 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 2017-11-11 15:16:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-10 14:40:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 0.252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 307 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 us2000bnp3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bnp3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17181367,us2000bnp3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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