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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.8307S, -160.8217WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 58 km NNW of Sand Point, Alaska (36 miles) on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak16823061, us2000alp6. Unique identifier: us2000alp6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 161.07 km (100 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -160.8217 West, latitude 55.8307 North, depth = 161.07 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/09/17 / 2017-09-05 19:52:00 / September 5, 2017 @ 7:52 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:52:00 / 10:52 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km NNW of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.8217° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.8307° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 161.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km NNW of Sand Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-05 19:52:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-30 21:30:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 0.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us2000alp6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000alp6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16823061,us2000alp6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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