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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Cold Bay in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.755S, -161.742WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 78 km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska (48 miles). Global time and date of event 29/06/16 / 2016-06-29 12:25:43 / June 29, 2016 @ 12:25 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Cold Bay in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: at00o9j96v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o9j96v, ak13732334. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -161.742° West, 54.755° North, depth 61 km. The temblor was detected at 01:25:43 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 78 km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -161.742° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.755° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km SE of Cold Bay, 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 12:25:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-29 12:40:31 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 3.67 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 385 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.595583 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183.599985312 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 at00o9j96v Id of event.
Event Code 00o9j96v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o9j96v,ak13732334, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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