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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3885S, -175.1002WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 109 km SW of Atka, Alaska (68 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Atka in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -175.1002 West, latitude 51.3885 North, depth = 33.1 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/11/15 / 2015-11-12 17:28:38 / November 12, 2015 @ 5:28 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.1 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:28:38 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10003xtq. Event ids that are associated: at00nxppvs, us10003xtq, ak11869215.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 109 km SW of Atka, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.1002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109km SW 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 2015-11-12 17:28:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-12 17:47:53 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 416 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,ak, 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 1.104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us10003xtq Id of event.
Event Code 10003xtq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nxppvs,us10003xtq,ak11869215, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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