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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Amukta Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8384S, -171.5993WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 76 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska (47 miles) on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/09/16 / 2016-09-02 02:56:42 / September 2, 2016 @ 2:56 am. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:56:42 / 3:56 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006pab. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13964083, us10006pab. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.44 km (23 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -171.5993 West, latitude 51.8384 North, depth = 36.44 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 76 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska. This information 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 -171.5993° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8384° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-02 02:56:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-02 01:55:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 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 1.437 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 218 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 us10006pab Id of event.
Event Code 10006pab An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13964083,us10006pab, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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