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Earthquake 5.8 mb, Southeastern Alaska


Earthquake location 59.016S, -136.713WAn earthquake with magnitude 5.8 mg has occurred in Southeastern Alaska. Time of event: Wednesday 4th June @ 11:58 am UTC. Location of event: -136.713S, 59.016W, depth=12 km. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about quake recorded in: Southeastern Alaska. Did you feel it? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country.


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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -136.713° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.016° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Southeastern Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2014-06-04 11:58:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-06-04 12:02:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 518 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources at A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.77794104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115.2 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00n6n7y9 Id of event.
Event Code 00n6n7y9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS at00n6n7y9 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. Pw

    Felt this just south of lake labarge north of whitehorse yukon.

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