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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 113 km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska


Earthquake location 54.3899S, -161.6064WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 113 km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska (70 miles) on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -161.6064° West, latitude 54.3899° North, depth = 12.75 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/11/17 / 2017-11-18 21:04:28 / November 18, 2017 @ 9:04 pm. The temblor was picked up at 10:04:28 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.75 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000bs5k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17296198, us2000bs5k.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 113 km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -161.6064° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3899° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-18 21:04:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-09 05:14:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 129 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 0.817 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 us2000bs5k Id of event.
Event Code 2000bs5k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17296198,us2000bs5k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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