Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Atka in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 43 km NNW of Atka, Alaska (27 miles) on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 192.98 km (120 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:40:04 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/16 / 2016-02-16 18:40:04 / February 16, 2016 @ 6:40 pm. Exact location, longitude -174.3429° West, latitude 52.5734° North, depth = 192.98 km. Id of earthquake: us10004sdu. Event ids that are associated: ak12876764, us10004sdu.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 43 km NNW of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-174.3429° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.5734° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	192.98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km NNW of Atka, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-16 18:40:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-15 15:57:07	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	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	0.382	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	186	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	us10004sdu	Id of event.
Event Code	10004sdu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12876764,us10004sdu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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