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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8805S, -177.7723WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 25 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (16 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -177.7723 West, latitude 51.8805 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us70007lpq. Ids that are associated to the event: ak02015pqsbk, us70007lpq. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:35:34 / 12:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 22:35:34 / January 25, 2020 @ 10:35 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and two, in the past 30 days one hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 25 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.7723° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8805° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km 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 2020-01-25 22:35:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-12 04:09:17 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 148 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 0.071 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us70007lpq Id of event.
Event Code 70007lpq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02015pqsbk,us70007lpq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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