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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near King Salmon in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 58.5584S, -156.5588WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 20 km SSE of King Salmon, Alaska (12 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 204.3 km (127 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 23/07/16 / 2016-07-23 09:59:00 / July 23, 2016 @ 9:59 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near King Salmon in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.5588 West, latitude 58.5584 North, depth = 204.3 km. All ids that are associated to the event: at00oarieb, us20006h2m, ak13792823. Unique identifier: ak13792823. The temblor was detected at 01:59:00 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-five 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.5588° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.5584° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 204.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SSE of King Salmon, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-23 09:59:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-23 10:23:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 automatic 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 450 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,us,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak13792823 Id of event.
Event Code 13792823 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00oarieb,us20006h2m,ak13792823, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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