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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.9148S, 179.7856WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 km ESE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:05:44 / 2:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 179.7856 East, latitude 51.9148 North, depth = 182.11 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004h5u, ak12280173. Unique identifier: us20004h5u. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/12/15 / 2015-12-04 00:05:44 / December 4, 2015 @ 12:05 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 182.11 km (113 miles).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 13 km ESE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.7856° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 182.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ESE of Semisopochnoi 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 2015-12-04 00:05:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-19 05:36:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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,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 0.139 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us20004h5u Id of event.
Event Code 20004h5u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004h5u,ak12280173, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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