Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 49 km NNW of Amatignak Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.6459S, -179.473WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 49 km NNW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (30 miles) on Wednesday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:43:53 / 5:43 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82.9 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -179.473 West, latitude 51.6459 North, depth = 82.9 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/12/15 / 2015-12-02 17:43:53 / December 2, 2015 @ 5:43 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ak12172077. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12172077.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel it?

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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 49 km NNW of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

Copyright © 2015 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.473° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6459° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NNW 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 2015-12-02 17:43:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-08 09:01:07 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 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 13 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 165.599986752 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 ak12172077 Id of event.
Event Code 12172077 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12172077, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply