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Magnitude 4.9 Earthquake: North Pacific Ocean

Summary

The red marker denotes the earthquake epicenter.

On Sun Dec 27th 2015 19:24:56 (UTC) the seismic network recorded an earthquake (preliminary 4.9 mb) located in North Pacific Ocean. Seismic region Pacific Basin.

The epicentral distance (i.e. distance separating the location to the epicenter) to the closest station SCI2 in the network is 838.2 km.

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Details

Time:Sun Dec 27th 2015 19:24:56 (UTC)
Magnitude:4.9 mb
Location:(25.6917,-120.9304)
Depth:10.0 km
Author:USGS:us
evid,orid:39963,132351
nass,ndef:45,0
Authoritative:y

Proximity to Population Centers

Event and active stations

The red marker denotes the earthquake epicenter.

Seismic waveforms for closest station

Closest station with identified signal. Not filtered.

Seismic waveforms for vertical channels in network

Subset of several stations close to the event. Not filtered.

Signal description at some stations

STA_CHANS-E DeltaS-E AzimuthPhase TimeSignal/NoiseTime ResidualV. ModelAutharid
CPE_HHZ7.931°205.83°Pn2015-12-27 19:26:50.0202 UTC19.799-2.073iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806551
MONP2_HHZ8.201°209.77°Pn2015-12-27 19:26:54.7102 UTC19.719-1.091iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806552
SMER_HHZ8.424°203.79°Pn2015-12-27 19:26:57.0475 UTC25.025-1.813iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806553
LVA2_HHZ8.549°207.5°Pn2015-12-27 19:26:59.4856 UTC46.96-1.083iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806554
JORD_HHZ8.624°206.68°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:00.7395 UTC51.638-0.866iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806556
BZN_HHZ8.634°206.51°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:00.8198 UTC19.612-0.91iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806557
TR04_HHZ8.643°208.09°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:01.4575 UTC-1-0.408iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806563
TR03_HHZ8.654°208.08°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:01.4158 UTC-1-0.593iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806561
FRD_HHZ8.661°206.85°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:01.4649 UTC72.367-0.637iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806564
TR02_HHZ8.664°208.08°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:01.4809 UTC-1-0.67iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806565
TR01_HHZ8.67°208.09°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:01.6526 UTC78.686-0.572iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806568
JFS4_HHZ8.673°208.14°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:01.6431 UTC-1-0.626iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806567
CRY_HHZ8.674°205.91°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:01.4507 UTC13.4-0.834iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806562
JFN4_HHZ8.676°208.15°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:01.6974 UTC-1-0.615iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806569
RDM_HHZ8.693°205.12°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:01.3242 UTC10.393-1.216iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806560
WMC_HHZ8.704°206.22°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:02.2702 UTC15.238-0.429iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806577
SND_HHZ8.708°206.62°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:02.5256 UTC20.205-0.222iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806579
BCCC_HHZ8.721°205.28°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:01.7252 UTC5.5909-1.205iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806570
TMSP_HHZ8.743°206.06°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:02.8769 UTC-1-0.353iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806583
RRSP_HHZ8.751°205.65°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:02.5581 UTC-1-0.779iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806580
TRO_HHZ8.754°207.71°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:03.2969 UTC17.091-0.08iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806587
RHIL_HHZ8.759°205.42°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:02.7571 UTC-1-0.692iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806581
KNW_HHZ8.817°205.62°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:03.7846 UTC12.343-0.462iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806591
PFO_HHZ8.819°207.27°Pn2015-12-27 19:27:04.3135 UTC10.9950.04iasp91dbp:jtytell:153806594

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