Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Buldir Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 174 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska (108 miles) on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 06:57:53 / January 6, 2020 @ 6:57 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.6 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: ak020a150k6. Ids that are associated to the event: ak020a150k6. Exact location, longitude 175.8928° East, latitude 50.7933° North, depth = 5.6 km. The temblor was detected at 18:57:53 / 6:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 174 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	175.8928° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.7933° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	174km S of Buldir 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	2020-01-06 06:57:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-15 22:49:44	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	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	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	0.37 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	ak020a150k6	Id of event.
Event Code	020a150k6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak020a150k6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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