Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Sitka in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Sitka in Alaska. The temblor was reported at 23:39:37 / 11:39 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.1 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/09/19 / 2019-09-30 08:39:37 / September 30, 2019 @ 8:39 am. Exact location of earthquake, -136.4535° West, 57.2218° North, depth 4.1 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak019cjmpng9, us70005nsr. Unique identifier: ak019cjmpng9.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sitka. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Sitka (c. 8 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 64 km WNW of Sitka, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-136.4535° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	57.2218° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km WNW of Sitka, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-30 08:39:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-23 04:11:35	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	ak	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak019cjmpng9	Id of event.
Event Code	019cjmpng9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak019cjmpng9,us70005nsr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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