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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.8848S, 178.3356WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 13 km WSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (8 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123.7 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: ak0205inc5zt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0205inc5zt. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:50:16 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 11:50:16 / April 29, 2020 @ 11:50 am. Exact location of event, longitude 178.3356 East, latitude 51.8848 North, depth = 123.7 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km WSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.3356° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8848° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WSW 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 2020-04-29 11:50:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-13 06:19:36 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 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 0.52 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 ak0205inc5zt Id of event.
Event Code 0205inc5zt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0205inc5zt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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