Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 32 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 32 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (20 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 106.11 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -177.6762° West, latitude 51.845° North, depth = 106.11 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/11/17 / 2017-11-12 04:59:06 / November 12, 2017 @ 4:59 am. The temblor was detected at 18:59:06 / 6:59 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000bpbr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17184377, us2000bpbr.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.6762° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.845° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	106.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-12 04:59:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-30 06:43:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	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	0.091	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	143	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	us2000bpbr	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bpbr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak17184377,us2000bpbr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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