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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Alaska Peninsula


Earthquake location 57.0284S, -157.8303WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Alaska Peninsula (0 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13422117. Id of event: ak13422117. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.2 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/04/16 / 2016-04-04 05:41:02 / April 4, 2016 @ 5:41 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:41:02 / 5:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -157.8303° West, 57.0284° North, depth 17.2 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Alaska Peninsula. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -157.8303° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.0284° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Alaska Peninsula Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-04 05:41:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-09 19:12:55 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 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2191889 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143.99998848 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 ak13422117 Id of event.
Event Code 13422117 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13422117, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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