Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Noatak in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 28 km NW of Noatak, Alaska (17 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:10:51 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.8 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/16 / 2016-01-29 20:10:51 / January 29, 2016 @ 8:10 pm. Exact location, longitude -163.4294° West, latitude 67.7551° North, depth = 19.8 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak12558140. Unique identifier: ak12558140.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 28 km NW of Noatak, 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	-163.4294° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	67.7551° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km NW of Noatak, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-29 20:10:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-06 22:30:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3575295	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	169.199986464	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	ak12558140	Id of event.
Event Code	12558140	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12558140,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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