Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Chirik

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 146 km SSW of Chirikof Island, Alaska (91 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 03:17:27 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -156.7276 West, latitude 54.6698 North, depth = 5.6 km. Id of earthquake: ak11756054. Event ids that are associated: ak11756054. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/10/15 / 2015-10-21 13:17:27 / October 21, 2015 @ 1:17 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.6 km (3 miles).

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 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 146 km SSW of Chirikof Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.7276° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.6698° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	146km SSW of Chirikof 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	2015-10-21 13:17:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-28 00:14:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	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	0.43 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	ak11756054	Id of event.
Event Code	11756054	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11756054,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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