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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Chernabura Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.1291S, -160.1113WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 81 km SSW of Chernabura Island, Alaska (50 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:54:34 / 11:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.33 km (10 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak14339450, us100077zc. Unique identifier: us100077zc. Exact location, longitude -160.1113° West, latitude 54.1291° North, depth = 16.33 km. Global time and date of event 14/11/16 / 2016-11-14 22:54:34 / November 14, 2016 @ 10:54 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 five and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km SSW of Chernabura Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.1113° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.1291° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SSW of Chernabura 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 2016-11-14 22:54:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-14 23:13:29 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 0 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 416 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 ,ak,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 0.766 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100077zc Id of event.
Event Code 100077zc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak14339450,us100077zc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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