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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Stockton-on-Tees in United Kingdom

Posted by admin on January 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5718S, -1.3145WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Stockton-on-Tees in United Kingdom. The temblor was picked up at 05:56:59 / 5:56 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007dkf. Unique identifier: us60007dkf. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -1.3145° West, 54.5718° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 05:56:59 / January 23, 2020 @ 5:56 am.

Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Newcastle upon Tyne (c. 192 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Sunderland (c. 178 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from York (c. 144 200 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Middlesbrough (c. 142 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Darlington (c. 87 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United Kingdom (c. 62 348 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadcaster, Boston Spa, Wetherby (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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 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: 0 km NE of Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -1.3145° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5718° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km NE of Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-23 05:56:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 06:23:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 0 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 122 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 ,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 1.321 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us60007dkf Id of event.
Event Code 60007dkf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007dkf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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