Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Akutan in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 260 km SE of Akutan, Alaska (162 miles) on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/09/16 / 2016-09-25 16:51:13 / September 25, 2016 @ 4:51 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak14090323, us10006tp5. Unique identifier: us10006tp5. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -163.2567 West, latitude 52.3502 North, depth = 10 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:51:13 / 5:51 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 260 km SE of Akutan, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-163.2567° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.3502° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	260km SE of Akutan, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-25 16:51:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-16 18:10:21	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	2.293	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	243	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	us10006tp5	Id of event.
Event Code	10006tp5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak14090323,us10006tp5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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