Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Unalaska in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 67 km SSW of Unalaska, Alaska (42 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/01/18 / 2018-01-27 05:54:01 / January 27, 2018 @ 5:54 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000cegu. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18205652, us1000cegu. Exact location of event, longitude -167.0209 West, latitude 53.3397 North, depth = 78.53 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78.53 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 20:54:01 / 8:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 67 km SSW of Unalaska, 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	-167.0209° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.3397° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67km SSW of Unalaska, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-27 05:54:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-11 08:52:44	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	0.462	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	210	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	us1000cegu	Id of event.
Event Code	1000cegu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak18205652,us1000cegu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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