Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8957S, -174.3648WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 35 km SSW of Atka, Alaska (22 miles) on Friday. Event id: us10006ctg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13818871, us10006ctg. The temblor was reported at 18:51:41 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 03:51:41 / July 30, 2016 @ 3:51 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 42.48 km (26 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -174.3648° West, 51.8957° North, depth 42.48 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

How would you describe the shaking?

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: 35 km SSW of Atka, Alaska.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.3648° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8957° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km SSW 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 2016-07-30 03:51:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-25 05:44:51 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 0.412 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us10006ctg Id of event.
Event Code 10006ctg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13818871,us10006ctg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply