Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Skagway in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 70 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska (43 miles) on Monday. The temblor was reported at 08:54:45 / 8:54 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/05/17 / 2017-05-15 16:54:45 / May 15, 2017 @ 4:54 pm. Exact location of event, depth 8.6 km, -136.4648° West, 59.6982° North. Id of earthquake: ak16037968. Event ids that are associated: ak16037968. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.6 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 70 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-136.4648° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.6982° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70km 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	2017-05-15 16:54:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-15 17:00:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	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	121	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	0.89 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	ak16037968	Id of event.
Event Code	16037968	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak16037968,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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