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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag has occurred near Atka in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 8, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.4998S, -172.9807WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 114 km SE of Atka, Alaska (71 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:33:16 / 11:33 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: at00nxhurg, us10003vq9. Unique identifier: us10003vq9. Global time and date of event 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 11:33:16 / November 8, 2015 @ 11:33 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.51 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Atka in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -172.9807° West, latitude 51.4998° North, depth = 33.51 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days seventeen 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 114 km SE of Atka, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.9807° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km 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 11:54:25 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 3.55 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 500 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 2.003 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003vq9 Id of event.
Event Code 10003vq9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nxhurg,us10003vq9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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