Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 58 km S of Atka, Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 58 km S of Atka, Alaska (36 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:20:03 / 3:20 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004x4s. Unique identifier: us10004x4s. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -174.1524 West, latitude 51.6732 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 13/03/16 / 2016-03-13 03:20:03 / March 13, 2016 @ 3:20 am UTC/GMT.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km S of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-174.1524° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.6732° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km 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	2016-03-13 03:20:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-13 03:40:05	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	0	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	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,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	1.255	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	us10004x4s	Id of event.
Event Code	10004x4s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004x4s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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