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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.6013S, 179.689WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 39 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (24 miles) on Thursday. Event id: us2000kcbs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0193ctdsor, us2000kcbs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.36 km (15 miles). Exact location, longitude 179.689° East, latitude 51.6013° North, depth = 24.36 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:29:22 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/19 / 2019-03-14 05:29:22 / March 14, 2019 @ 5:29 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 39 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.689° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6013° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-14 05:29:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-12 11:03:55 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 0.922 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 355 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 us2000kcbs Id of event.
Event Code 2000kcbs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0193ctdsor,us2000kcbs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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