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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 73 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska


Earthquake location 54.21S, -163.675WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 73 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska (45 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:27:04 / 10:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64.66 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0203nqlmm, us70006xma. Id of event: us70006xma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/01/20 / 2020-01-02 21:27:04 / January 2, 2020 @ 9:27 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -163.675 West, latitude 54.21 North, depth = 64.66 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.21° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km SSW of False Pass, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-02 21:27:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-11 04:57:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 0.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us70006xma Id of event.
Event Code 70006xma An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0203nqlmm,us70006xma, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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