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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near King Cove in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.6289S, -161.1588WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 88 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska (55 miles). Exact location, longitude -161.1588° West, latitude 54.6289° North, depth = 26.7 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020a0jfkg3, us6000bipd. Id of event: us6000bipd. The temblor was picked up at 00:46:24 / 12:46 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/08/20 / 2020-08-05 00:46:24 / August 5, 2020 @ 12:46 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.7 km (17 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 fourty-two, in the last 10 days eighty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 88 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -161.1588° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.6289° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-05 00:46:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-23 22:20:07 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 ,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 0.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us6000bipd Id of event.
Event Code 6000bipd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020a0jfkg3,us6000bipd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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