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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Atka in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 8, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.1079S, -173.318WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 61 km E of Atka, Alaska (38 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37 km (23 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Atka in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 10:46:24 / November 8, 2015 @ 10:46 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:46:24 / 12:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -173.318 West, latitude 52.1079 North, depth = 37 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nxhslc. Id of event: at00nxhslc.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 61 km E of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.318° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.1079° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km E 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 2015-11-08 10:46:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-08 10:54:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 465 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.50844645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190.8 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 at00nxhslc Id of event.
Event Code 00nxhslc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nxhslc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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