Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Skagway in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 91 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska (57 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -136.7548 West, latitude 59.8303 North, depth = 3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:17:29 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/05/17 / 2017-05-08 05:17:29 / May 8, 2017 @ 5:17 am. Unique identifier: ak15978690. Ids that are associated to the event: ak15978690.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days one hundred and two, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 91 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-136.7548° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.8303° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	91km WNW of Skagway, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-08 05:17:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-08 05:27:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	automatic	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	130	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak15978690	Id of event.
Event Code	15978690	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak15978690,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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