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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 13 km N of Chernabura Island, Alaska

Posted by admin on October 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.9064S, -159.5212WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 13 km N of Chernabura Island, Alaska (8 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.87 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/10/15 / 2015-10-12 19:30:35 / October 12, 2015 @ 7:30 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -159.5212° West, 54.9064° North, depth 29.87 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:30:35 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10003n2x. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003n2x. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 13 km N of Chernabura Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.5212° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.9064° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km N of Chernabura Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-12 19:30:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-12 20:03:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 385 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 ,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 0.085 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us10003n2x Id of event.
Event Code 10003n2x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003n2x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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