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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near False Pass in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 27, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 53.6236S, -163.2767WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 136 km S of False Pass, Alaska (85 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -163.2767 West, latitude 53.6236 North, depth = 17.22 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.22 km (11 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near False Pass in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/10/16 / 2016-10-27 11:53:18 / October 27, 2016 @ 11:53 am UTC/GMT. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:53:18 / 12:53 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ofpfov, us100072bs. Id of event: us100072bs.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 136 km S of False Pass, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.2767° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.6236° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 136km S of False Pass, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-27 11:53:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-27 12:12:38 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 3.61 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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 1.238 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100072bs Id of event.
Event Code 100072bs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ofpfov,us100072bs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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