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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 118 km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska


Earthquake location 57.167S, -157.7539WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 118 km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska (73 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -157.7539 West, latitude 57.167 North, depth = 4.3 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak13610263. Unique identifier: ak13610263. Global time and date of event 28/05/16 / 2016-05-28 16:53:24 / May 28, 2016 @ 4:53 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.3 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 08:53:24 / 8:53 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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: 118 km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska. This data 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 -157.7539° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.167° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-28 16:53:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-28 17:22:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 automatic 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 0.91 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 ak13610263 Id of event.
Event Code 13610263 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13610263, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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