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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5358S, -173.6111WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 83 km SSE of Atka, Alaska (52 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -173.6111 West, latitude 51.5358 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003x70, ak11835103. Unique identifier: us10003x70. The temblor was reported at 23:37:30 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 02/11/15 / 2015-11-02 11:37:30 / November 2, 2015 @ 11:37 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 83 km SSE of Atka, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.6111° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5358° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km SSE of Atka, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-02 11:37:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-15 09:11:07 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 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 0.798 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 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 us10003x70 Id of event.
Event Code 10003x70 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003x70,ak11835103, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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