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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Talkeetna in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 63.1206S, -151.0119WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 100 km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska (62 miles). Global time and date of event 15/05/16 / 2016-05-15 05:51:00 / May 15, 2016 @ 5:51 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 131.21 km (82 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.0119 West, latitude 63.1206 North, depth = 131.21 km. All ids that are associated to the event: at00o77ewz, us10005hig. Unique identifier: us10005hig. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:51:00 / 9:51 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).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 100 km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.0119° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.1206° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km 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 05:51:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-15 06:13:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 169 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 521 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, 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 0.435 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 20 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 us10005hig Id of event.
Event Code 10005hig An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o77ewz,us10005hig, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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