Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Kiska Volcano in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 178 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (111 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.6 km (9 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11682503. Id of event: ak11682503. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/15 / 2015-08-12 00:00:17 / August 12, 2015 @ 12:00 am. Exact location, longitude 176.7803° East, latitude 50.5795° North, depth = 14.6 km. The temblor was detected at 12:00:17 / 12:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 178 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	176.7803° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.5795° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	178km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-12 00:00:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-21 01:07:59	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	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	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	327.599973792	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	ak11682503	Id of event.
Event Code	11682503	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11682503,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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