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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 93 km SSE of Haines Junction, Canada

Posted by admin on May 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.9539S, -137.015WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 93 km SSE of Haines Junction, Canada (58 miles) on Monday. The temblor was reported at 04:40:46 / 4:40 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10008rjx. Ids that are associated to the event: ak16020428, us10008rjx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.22 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -137.015 West, latitude 59.9539 North, depth = 7.22 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/05/17 / 2017-05-01 12:40:46 / May 1, 2017 @ 12:40 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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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: 93 km SSE of Haines Junction, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -137.015° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.9539° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km SSE of Haines Junction, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-01 12:40:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-12 08:23:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 0.488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 318 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 us10008rjx Id of event.
Event Code 10008rjx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16020428,us10008rjx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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