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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.8587S, -177.8998WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 16 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (10 miles). Global time and date of event 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 20:41:41 / January 26, 2020 @ 8:41 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us60007hf5. Ids that are associated to the event: av62129666, ak02017c4kgh, us60007hf5. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:41:41 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -177.8998° West, 51.8587° North, depth 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and six, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 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. 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: 16 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8998° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8587° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km 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 2020-01-26 20:41:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-16 17:01:28 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 ,av,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 0.066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us60007hf5 Id of event.
Event Code 60007hf5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,av62129666,ak02017c4kgh,us60007hf5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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