Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 105 km NW of Sand Point, Alaska (65 miles). Unique identifier: at00o9iym9. Ids that are associated to the event: at00o9iym9. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/06/16 / 2016-06-29 08:37:21 / June 29, 2016 @ 8:37 am. Exact location of earthquake, -161.479° West, 56.109° North, depth 230 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:37:21 / 9:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 230 km (143 miles).

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 sixteen 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. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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: 105 km NW of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-161.479° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.109° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	230 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	105km NW of Sand Point, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-29 08:37:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-29 08:41:02	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	432	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	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7051775	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61.199995104	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	at00o9iym9	Id of event.
Event Code	00o9iym9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00o9iym9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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