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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug in Russia

Posted by admin on September 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 64.5184S, -173.222WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes near the south coast of Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia (0 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/08/18 / 2018-08-21 14:00:29 / August 21, 2018 @ 2:00 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak20257899. Unique identifier: ak20257899. Exact location of event, depth 13.6 km, -173.222° West, 64.5184° North. The temblor was picked up at 14:00:29 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.6 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: near the south coast of Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.222° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.5184° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place near the south coast of Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-21 14:00:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-18 23:13:24 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 129 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 0.59 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 ak20257899 Id of event.
Event Code 20257899 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20257899, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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