Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 30 km SW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (19 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/05/18 / 2018-05-09 12:08:36 / May 9, 2018 @ 12:08 pm. The temblor was detected at 02:08:36 / 2:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 178.2013 East, latitude 51.7503 North, depth = 132.5 km. Event id: us1000e4d0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19500316, us1000e4d0. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 132.5 km (82 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km SW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	178.2013° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.7503° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	132.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km SW 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	2018-05-09 12:08:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-06 13:13:21	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	129	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	0.49 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	us1000e4d0	Id of event.
Event Code	1000e4d0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak19500316,us1000e4d0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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