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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7788S, -173.1408WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 86 km ESE of Atka, Alaska (53 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak019s8eez3, us2000j8j3. Unique identifier: us2000j8j3. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:16:15 / 7:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -173.1408° West, 51.7788° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/01/19 / 2019-01-17 07:16:15 / January 17, 2019 @ 7:16 am.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 km ESE of Atka, 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 -173.1408° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7788° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km ESE of Atka, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-17 07:16:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-10 06:51:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 0.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 329 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 us2000j8j3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j8j3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019s8eez3,us2000j8j3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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