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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 22 km ENE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9962S, -177.8615WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 22 km ENE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (14 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -177.8615 West, latitude 51.9962 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 06:02:33 / January 23, 2020 @ 6:02 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:02:33 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us60007ex7. Ids that are associated to the event: av62127171, ak020124y33f, us60007ex7.

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 nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 22 km ENE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8615° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9962° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km ENE 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 06:02:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-20 13:39:31 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 138 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 ,av,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 0.123 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us60007ex7 Id of event.
Event Code 60007ex7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,av62127171,ak020124y33f,us60007ex7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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