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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 29, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.8425S, -177.87WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 19 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (12 miles) on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 07:03:10 / January 23, 2020 @ 7:03 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.46 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.87 West, latitude 51.8425 North, depth = 4.46 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:03:10 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us60007f80. Ids that are associated to the event: av62127341, ak020125joix, us60007f80.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 sixty-one, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days seventy-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.87° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8425° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km ESE 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 07:03:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 12:51:10 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 211 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 0.044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007f80 Id of event.
Event Code 60007f80 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,av62127341,ak020125joix,us60007f80, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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