Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/07/15 / 2015-07-28 23:51:15 / July 28, 2015 @ 11:51 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 23:51:15 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ak11661501. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11661501. Exact location of earthquake, -169.1691° West, 52.4833° North, depth 44.5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.5 km (28 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-169.1691° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.4833° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-28 23:51:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-03 17:36:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	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	15	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	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	219.599982432	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	ak11661501	Id of event.
Event Code	11661501	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11661501,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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