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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Atka in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.343S, -174.001WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 95 km S of Atka, Alaska (59 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 32 km (20 miles). Exact location of event, depth 32 km, -174.001° West, 51.343° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 13:23:40 / March 12, 2016 @ 1:23 pm. Id of earthquake: at00o3xh7g. Event ids that are associated: at00o3xh7g, ak12969021. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:23:40 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Atka in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 95 km S of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.343° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km S 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 2016-03-12 13:23:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-12 13:37:48 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 3.17 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223.2 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 at00o3xh7g Id of event.
Event Code 00o3xh7g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o3xh7g,ak12969021, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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