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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Redoubt Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.2585S, -152.6158WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Redoubt Volcano in Alaska on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 01:22:33 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/01/16 / 2016-01-09 10:22:33 / January 9, 2016 @ 10:22 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 95.2 km (59 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak12454335. Id of event: ak12454335. Exact location of event, depth 95.2 km, -152.6158° West, 60.2585° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop).

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 26 km SSE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.6158° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.2585° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SSE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-09 10:22:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-09 10:40:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 automatic 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 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 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 ak12454335 Id of event.
Event Code 12454335 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12454335, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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