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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3692S, -178.0121WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 57 km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (35 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 09:42:46 / 9:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.2 km (20 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/17 / 2017-01-11 19:42:46 / January 11, 2017 @ 7:42 pm. Event id: us10007sl6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ojms39, us10007sl6, ak15061238. Exact location of event, longitude -178.0121 West, latitude 51.3692 North, depth = 32.2 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska (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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.0121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3692° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km S of Tanaga 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 2017-01-11 19:42:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-11 20:00:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 3.14 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,ak, 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 0.721 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us10007sl6 Id of event.
Event Code 10007sl6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ojms39,us10007sl6,ak15061238, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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