Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Perryville in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 127 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska (79 miles) on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.28 km (12 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0209x8vqu6, us6000bi7y. Id of event: us6000bi7y. Exact location of event, depth 19.28 km, -158.6543° West, 54.8028° North. The temblor was detected at 01:34:27 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/08/20 / 2020-08-03 01:34:27 / August 3, 2020 @ 1:34 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and nine 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.

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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: 127 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-158.6543° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.8028° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	127 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-03 01:34:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-23 22:11:29	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	0.542	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	265	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	us6000bi7y	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bi7y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0209x8vqu6,us6000bi7y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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