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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5515S, -173.3781WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 91 km SE of Atka, Alaska (57 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -173.3781 West, latitude 51.5515 North, depth = 36.41 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Atka in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 02/11/15 / 2015-11-02 08:31:18 / November 2, 2015 @ 8:31 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us200041a3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nx6ic9, us200041a3. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:31:18 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.41 km (23 miles).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km SE of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.3781° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5515° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km SE of Atka, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-02 08:31:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-02 08:56:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 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 432 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 ,at,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 0.825 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us200041a3 Id of event.
Event Code 200041a3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nx6ic9,us200041a3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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