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

Posted by admin on December 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.5595S, 177.106WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 69 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (43 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 09:30:38 / December 17, 2016 @ 9:30 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kiska Volcano in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.65 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: at00oibp31, us200081uv. Unique identifier: us200081uv. Exact location of earthquake, 177.106° East, 51.5595° North, depth 45.65 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:30:38 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 69 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.106° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5595° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km 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 09:30:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-17 09:46:20 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 385 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 2.19 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us200081uv Id of event.
Event Code 200081uv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00oibp31,us200081uv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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