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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7645S, 178.6176WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 21 km SSE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (13 miles) on Monday. Exact location, longitude 178.6176° East, latitude 51.7645° North, depth = 108.98 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 108.98 km (68 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:57:12 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/03/20 / 2020-03-16 22:57:12 / March 16, 2020 @ 10:57 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0203i2a5mo, us70008thg. Id of event: us70008thg.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km SSE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska. This data 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 178.6176° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SSE of Little Sitkin 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 2020-03-16 22:57:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-12 22:16:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 0.17 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us70008thg Id of event.
Event Code 70008thg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0203i2a5mo,us70008thg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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