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Minor earthquake: M3.16 quake has struck near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.8848333S, -177.8573333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 19 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (12 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -177.8573333 West, latitude 51.8848333 North, depth = 2.94 km. All ids that are associated to the event: av62127501. Unique identifier: av62127501. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.94 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 22:06:06 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 08:06:06 / January 23, 2020 @ 8:06 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 19 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8573333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8848333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 08:06:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-25 00:38:17 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 154 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network av The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,av, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07532 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 av62127501 Id of event.
Event Code 62127501 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,av62127501, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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