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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7829S, -177.7803WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 27 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (17 miles) on Wednesday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:39:14 / 8:39 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60007fa3. Event ids that are associated: av62127276, ak0201255z2f, us60007fa3. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 06:39:14 / January 23, 2020 @ 6:39 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -177.7803° West, latitude 51.7829° North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 27 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.7803° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7829° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km 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 06:39:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-21 09:27:01 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 129 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 0.038 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us60007fa3 Id of event.
Event Code 60007fa3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,av62127276,ak0201255z2f,us60007fa3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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