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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Chirik


Earthquake location 55.5851S, -151.7815WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 242 km E of Chirikof Island, Alaska (150 miles). Unique identifier: us70007008. Ids that are associated to the event: ak020f2iq3u, us70007008. The temblor was picked up at 01:22:52 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.7815 West, latitude 55.5851 North, depth = 5.4 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 11:22:52 / January 9, 2020 @ 11:22 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.4 km (3 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 242 km E of Chirikof Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.7815° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.5851° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 242km E of Chirikof 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 2020-01-09 11:22:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 07:17:47 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 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 1.663 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 264 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 us70007008 Id of event.
Event Code 70007008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020f2iq3u,us70007008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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