Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 85 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (53 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 16:28:56 / August 14, 2016 @ 4:28 pm. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:28:56 / 7:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: at00obwr48. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00obwr48. A tsunami warning has been issued near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 179.529° East, latitude 51.183° North, depth = 78 km.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 85 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	179.529° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.183° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	85km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-14 16:28:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-14 16:33:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	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	465	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2416468	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	212.399983008	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00obwr48	Id of event.
Event Code	00obwr48	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00obwr48,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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