Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Atka in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 157 km SSE of Atka, Alaska (98 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak15447710, us100087bi. Id of event: us100087bi. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/02/17 / 2017-02-27 13:19:02 / February 27, 2017 @ 1:19 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -173.0715 West, latitude 50.9723 North, depth = 10 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:19:02 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 157 km SSE of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-173.0715° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.9723° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	157km SSE 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	2017-02-27 13:19:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-15 13:18:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-720	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	2.178	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	236	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	us100087bi	Id of event.
Event Code	100087bi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak15447710,us100087bi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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