Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 35.4 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 35.4 km, 179.957° East, 51.3449° North. Unique identifier: ak12857523. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12857523. Global time and date of event 13/02/16 / 2016-02-13 11:41:51 / February 13, 2016 @ 11:41 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:41:51 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. 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: Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	179.957° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.3449° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-13 11:41:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-20 00:44:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	10	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	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	341.99997264	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	ak12857523	Id of event.
Event Code	12857523	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12857523,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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