Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 10 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 10 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (6 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -179.2527° West, 51.2346° North, depth 25.6 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 21:02:06 / August 8, 2015 @ 9:02 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.6 km (16 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:02:06 / 12:02 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100032u4. Event ids that are associated: us100032u4, ak11673379.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy-seven 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-179.2527° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.2346° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km WSW of Amatignak 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	2015-08-08 21:02:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-03 05:12:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	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	,us,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	0.604	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208	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	us100032u4	Id of event.
Event Code	100032u4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100032u4,ak11673379,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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