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Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag has occurred near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8516667S, -177.9701667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 12 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (7 miles). Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -177.9701667° West, 51.8516667° North. The 3.02-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:28:57 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 18:28:57 / January 23, 2020 @ 6:28 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: av62128271. Id of event: av62128271.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and eighteen, 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 eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 12 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9701667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8516667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km 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 18:28:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-21 21:54:55 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 140 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04626 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 av62128271 Id of event.
Event Code 62128271 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,av62128271, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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