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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5171S, -177.9123WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 43 km SSE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (27 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 21/09/19 / 2019-09-21 01:55:38 / September 21, 2019 @ 1:55 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 15:55:38 / 3:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -177.9123 West, latitude 51.5171 North, depth = 63.93 km. Event id: us70005v55. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019c4msxbg, us70005v55. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.93 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 43 km SSE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9123° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5171° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SSE 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 2019-09-21 01:55:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-17 20:21:01 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 121 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 0.238 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us70005v55 Id of event.
Event Code 70005v55 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019c4msxbg,us70005v55, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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