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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Cold Bay in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.142S, -161.83WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 120 km NNE of Cold Bay, Alaska (75 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o3mczw. Id of event: at00o3mczw. Exact location of earthquake, -161.83° West, 56.142° North, depth 227 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 227 km (141 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/03/16 / 2016-03-06 13:19:08 / March 6, 2016 @ 1:19 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Cold Bay in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 02:19:08 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 120 km NNE of Cold Bay, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -161.83° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.142° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 227 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 120km NNE of Cold Bay, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-06 13:19:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-06 13:23:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 385 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.10133454 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79.2 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00o3mczw Id of event.
Event Code 00o3mczw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o3mczw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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