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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 18 km ENE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9468S, -177.8919WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 18 km ENE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (11 miles) on Monday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:38:10 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 14:38:10 / January 27, 2020 @ 2:38 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.8 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -177.8919° West, 51.9468° North, depth 13.8 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak02018w2lly, us70007l1i. Unique identifier: us70007l1i.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days one hundred, in the past 30 days one hundred and seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-four 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. 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: 18 km ENE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8919° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9468° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km ENE 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 2020-01-27 14:38:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-10 17:11:06 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 0.075 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 196 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 us70007l1i Id of event.
Event Code 70007l1i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02018w2lly,us70007l1i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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