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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 91 km WSW of Unalaska, Alaska


Earthquake location 53.4113S, -167.6875WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 91 km WSW of Unalaska, Alaska (57 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -167.6875 West, latitude 53.4113 North, depth = 10.7 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.7 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/16 / 2016-03-04 20:38:24 / March 4, 2016 @ 8:38 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ak12944416. Unique identifier: ak12944416. The temblor was detected at 10:38:24 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km WSW of Unalaska, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -167.6875° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.4113° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km WSW of Unalaska, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-04 20:38:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-11 12:43:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 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 0.77 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 ak12944416 Id of event.
Event Code 12944416 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12944416, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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