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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.899S, 179.8263WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 16 km ESE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (10 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 22:06:55 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/19 / 2019-01-11 08:06:55 / January 11, 2019 @ 8:06 am. Unique identifier: us2000j5am. Ids that are associated to the event: ak019ibpox0, us2000j5am. Exact location of event, depth 139.53 km, 179.8263° East, 51.899° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 139.53 km (87 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km ESE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.8263° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.899° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 139.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km 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 2019-01-11 08:06:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-30 11:31:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 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 0.852 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us2000j5am Id of event.
Event Code 2000j5am An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019ibpox0,us2000j5am, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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