Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag strikes near False Pass in Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 150 km S of False Pass, Alaska (93 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -163.1279° West, 53.511° North, depth 46 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near False Pass in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:53:19 / 12:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/10/16 / 2016-10-27 11:53:19 / October 27, 2016 @ 11:53 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ofpfov. Id of event: at00ofpfov.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 150 km S of False Pass, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-163.1279° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.511° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	150km 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 11:53:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-27 11:58:20	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	518	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.358253	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	205.199983584	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	at00ofpfov	Id of event.
Event Code	00ofpfov	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00ofpfov,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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