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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 49.9139S, -177.5851WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 184 km SE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (114 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.5851 West, latitude 49.9139 North, depth = 42.2 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak12123867, us100043ea. Unique identifier: us100043ea. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.2 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 05:07:17 / 5:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/12/15 / 2015-12-04 17:07:17 / December 4, 2015 @ 5:07 pm.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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 0 and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 184 km SE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.5851° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.9139° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 184km SE 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 2015-12-04 17:07:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-04 21:31:01 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 ,ak,us, 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 1.87 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 us100043ea Id of event.
Event Code 100043ea An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12123867,us100043ea, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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