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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 188 km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska

Posted by admin on June 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.2627S, 178.3159WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 188 km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (117 miles) on Monday. Global time and date of event 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 02:19:20 / June 11, 2018 @ 2:19 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 178.3159 East, latitude 50.2627 North, depth = 31.78 km. Event id: us1000en8y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19757756, us1000en8y. The temblor was reported at 14:19:20 / 2:19 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.78 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 188 km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.3159° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.2627° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 188km S 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 2018-06-11 02:19:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-13 03:11:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 1.278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 299 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 us1000en8y Id of event.
Event Code 1000en8y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19757756,us1000en8y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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