Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 69 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska (43 miles) on Sunday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:12:44 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70008fs6. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0203gab76h, us70008fs6. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/03/20 / 2020-03-15 15:12:44 / March 15, 2020 @ 3:12 pm. Exact location of event, depth 72.33 km, -161.1216° West, 54.8229° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 72.33 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 69 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-161.1216° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.8229° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km SW of Sand Point, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-15 15:12:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-30 13:55:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	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	0.538	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	us70008fs6	Id of event.
Event Code	70008fs6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0203gab76h,us70008fs6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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