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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.1217S, -179.7919WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 50 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (31 miles) on Saturday. Unique identifier: ak020173u8ui. Ids that are associated to the event: ak020173u8ui. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.7919 West, latitude 51.1217 North, depth = 7.2 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:49:39 / 6:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 06:49:39 / January 26, 2020 @ 6:49 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.2 km (4 miles).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.7919° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1217° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-26 06:49:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-14 19:43:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak020173u8ui Id of event.
Event Code 020173u8ui An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020173u8ui, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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