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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 51 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.4939S, 179.4722WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 51 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (32 miles). Global time and date of event 29/01/19 / 2019-01-29 15:29:17 / January 29, 2019 @ 3:29 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:29:17 / 5:29 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000jile. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0191c7otjb, us2000jile. The epicenter was at a depth of 71.3 km (44 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 179.4722 East, latitude 51.4939 North, depth = 71.3 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 51 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.4722° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-29 15:29:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-19 15:13:27 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 ,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us2000jile Id of event.
Event Code 2000jile An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0191c7otjb,us2000jile, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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