Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Juneau in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Juneau in Alaska on Monday. Global time and date of event 10/08/20 / 2020-08-10 07:04:27 / August 10, 2020 @ 7:04 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.2 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -133.4004 West, latitude 58.2516 North, depth = 5.2 km. The temblor was reported at 07:04:27 / 7:04 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000bbr6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bbr6.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Juneau (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Juneau (c. 31 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 60 km E of Juneau, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-133.4004° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	58.2516° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60 km E of Juneau, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-10 07:04:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-10 12:58:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	,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	0.591	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us6000bbr6	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bbr6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bbr6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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