Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Amukta Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 98 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska (61 miles) on Friday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:10:22 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/07/15 / 2015-07-11 03:10:22 / July 11, 2015 @ 3:10 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20002yr3. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11651128, us20002yr3. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.2 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -171.6493 West, latitude 51.6404 North, depth = 28.2 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 98 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-171.6493° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.6404° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	98km SSW of Amukta 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	2015-07-11 03:10:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-31 05:27:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	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	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	0.72 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	us20002yr3	Id of event.
Event Code	20002yr3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11651128,us20002yr3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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