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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 22, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.0772S, 179.2797WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 99 km SSW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (62 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.2797 East, latitude 51.0772 North, depth = 19.8 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11646980. Id of event: ak11646980. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/07/15 / 2015-07-14 19:19:24 / July 14, 2015 @ 7:19 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.8 km (12 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:19:24 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 99 km SSW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.2797° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0772° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km SSW of Semisopochnoi 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 2015-07-14 19:19:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-22 21:21:08 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 0.34 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 ak11646980 Id of event.
Event Code 11646980 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11646980, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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