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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska

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Earthquake location 51.8642S, -177.8578WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 19 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (12 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 06:15:04 / January 23, 2020 @ 6:15 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:15:04 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60007hq2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0201250t3e, us60007hq2. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.8578 West, latitude 51.8642 North, depth = 10 km.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 fourteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-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. 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: 19 km E of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8578° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2020-01-23 06:15:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-21 08:01:50 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 148 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 ,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 0.086 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us60007hq2 Id of event.
Event Code 60007hq2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0201250t3e,us60007hq2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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