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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 92 km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska

Posted by admin on May 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 63.065S, -150.936WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 92 km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska (57 miles). Id of earthquake: at00o77ewz. Event ids that are associated: at00o77ewz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/05/16 / 2016-05-15 05:50:59 / May 15, 2016 @ 5:50 am. The temblor was detected at 21:50:59 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Talkeetna in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 136 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.936 West, latitude 63.065 North, depth = 136 km.

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 three, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 92 km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.936° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.065° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 136 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-15 05:50:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-15 05:58:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 35 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 415 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.59648135 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32.4 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 at00o77ewz Id of event.
Event Code 00o77ewz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o77ewz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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