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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.175S, -178.192WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 64 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska (40 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Amatignak Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/17 / 2017-01-11 19:42:45 / January 11, 2017 @ 7:42 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -178.192° West, 51.175° North, depth 34 km. Event id: at00ojms39. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ojms39, ak15061238. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:42:45 / 7:42 am (local time epicenter).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 64 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.192° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.175° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km E of Amatignak 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 2017-01-11 19:42:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-11 19:53:42 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 3.19 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6997876 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208.799983296 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00ojms39 Id of event.
Event Code 00ojms39 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ojms39,ak15061238, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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