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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Posted by admin on May 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.6367S, -178.4211WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:12:55 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.2 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 09/05/17 / 2017-05-09 12:12:55 / May 9, 2017 @ 12:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -178.4211 West, latitude 51.6367 North, depth = 7.2 km. Unique identifier: ak16009680. Ids that are associated to the event: ak16009680.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and eighty-four, in the last 10 days three hundred and fifty-four, in the past 30 days three hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4211° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6367° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-09 12:12:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-25 02:09:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 0.5 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 ak16009680 Id of event.
Event Code 16009680 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16009680, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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