Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Atka in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 113 km SE of Atka, Alaska (70 miles). The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:33:16 / 11:33 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nxhurg. Id of event: at00nxhurg. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 11:33:16 / November 8, 2015 @ 11:33 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Atka in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -173 West, latitude 51.5 North, depth = 61 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 113 km SE of Atka, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-173° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.5° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	113km 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	2015-11-08 11:33:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-08 11:41:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-720	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	482	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	72	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.2576414	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208.8	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	at00nxhurg	Id of event.
Event Code	00nxhurg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00nxhurg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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