Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Alaska Peninsula

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, Alaska Peninsula (0 miles). Unique identifier: ak13422118. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13422118. The temblor was detected at 05:42:47 / 5:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -157.9244 West, latitude 56.9445 North, depth = 11.8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.8 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/04/16 / 2016-04-04 05:42:47 / April 4, 2016 @ 5:42 am.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Alaska Peninsula.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-157.9244° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.9445° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Alaska Peninsula	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-04 05:42:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-09 19:12:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1607984	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122.399990208	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	ak13422118	Id of event.
Event Code	13422118	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13422118,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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