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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Willow in Alaska


Earthquake location 61.9986S, -152.0877WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 107 km WNW of Willow, Alaska (66 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ns27g6, us2000304a, ak11655904. Id of event: ak11655904. A tsunami warning has been issued near Willow in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/07/15 / 2015-07-25 19:57:43 / July 25, 2015 @ 7:57 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:57:43 / 11:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109.1 km (68 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -152.0877 West, latitude 61.9986 North, depth = 109.1 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 107 km WNW of Willow, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.0877° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.9986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107km WNW of Willow, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-25 19:57:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-25 20:25:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 98 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.84 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic 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 464 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,us,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak11655904 Id of event.
Event Code 11655904 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ns27g6,us2000304a,ak11655904, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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