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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.8516667S, -177.9933333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 10 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (6 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.54 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: av62127636. Event ids that are associated: av62127636. Exact location of event, longitude -177.9933333 West, latitude 51.8516667 North, depth = 5.54 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 09:00:29 / January 23, 2020 @ 9:00 am. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:00:29 / 11:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9933333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8516667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ESE 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 09:00:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-21 21:48:14 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 128 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 av62127636 Id of event.
Event Code 62127636 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,av62127636, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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