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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Chignik Lake in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.4437S, -158.3767WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 93 km SSE of Chignik Lake, Alaska (58 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 12:57:24 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.4 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -158.3767° West, latitude 55.4437° North, depth = 29.4 km. Id of earthquake: us200061wi. Event ids that are associated: ak13631304, us200061wi. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/05/16 / 2016-05-31 23:57:24 / May 31, 2016 @ 11:57 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 93 km SSE of Chignik Lake, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.3767° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.4437° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km SSE 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 2016-05-31 23:57:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-14 00:11:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.53 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 us200061wi Id of event.
Event Code 200061wi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13631304,us200061wi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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