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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag strikes near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.9196S, -177.8269WA earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was reported 22 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (14 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 05:53:03 / January 23, 2020 @ 5:53 am. Id of earthquake: us60007djn. Event ids that are associated: us60007djn. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:53:03 / 7:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -177.8269° West, latitude 51.9196° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 22 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8269° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9196° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-23 05:53:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 06:11:51 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 6.474 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 591 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 0.423 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007djn Id of event.
Event Code 60007djn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007djn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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