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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Kiska Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.414S, 176.99WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 87 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (54 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31 km (19 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kiska Volcano in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 09:30:37 / December 17, 2016 @ 9:30 am. The temblor was reported at 21:30:37 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 176.99° East, latitude 51.414° North, depth = 31 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00oibp31. Id of event: at00oibp31.

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 three and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 87 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.99° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.414° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-17 09:30:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-17 09:36:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 400 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.446288 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194.399984448 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 at00oibp31 Id of event.
Event Code 00oibp31 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00oibp31, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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