Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Mayo in Canada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 217 km NNE of Mayo, Canada (135 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: ak16174694. Ids that are associated to the event: ak16174694. The temblor was reported at 10:23:39 / 10:23 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/06/17 / 2017-06-05 18:23:39 / June 5, 2017 @ 6:23 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.2 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -133.8027 West, latitude 65.3238 North, depth = 25.2 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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: 217 km NNE of Mayo, Canada. 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	-133.8027° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	65.3238° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	217km NNE of Mayo, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-05 18:23:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-05 19:58:59	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	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	0.96 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	ak16174694	Id of event.
Event Code	16174694	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak16174694,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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