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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.2926S, -174.4684WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 21 km WNW of Atka, Alaska (13 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:07:52 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/16 / 2016-07-18 13:07:52 / July 18, 2016 @ 1:07 pm. Event id: us20006gzr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13766810, us20006gzr. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -174.4684 West, latitude 52.2926 North, depth = 190.46 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 190.46 km (118 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 21 km WNW of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.4684° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2926° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 190.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WNW 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 2016-07-18 13:07:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-15 15:47:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 0.166 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 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 us20006gzr Id of event.
Event Code 20006gzr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13766810,us20006gzr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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