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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 94 km SE of City of Saint Paul, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.599S, -169.083WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (mg/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from City . The temblor was reported at 12:20:24 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 1 km (1 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-01 11:20:24 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near City , according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -169.083 West, latitude 56.599 North, depth 1 km.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.083° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.599° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km SE of City of Saint Paul, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-01 11:20:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-01 11:26:08 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 1 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 400 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68.4 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 at00nj3bi0 Id of event.
Event Code 00nj3bi0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS at00nj3bi0 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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