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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Anchor Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.6117S, -152.5297WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. Global time and date of event 02/03/17 / 2017-03-02 02:11:30 / March 2, 2017 @ 2:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -152.5297° West, 59.6117° North, depth 62.9 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak15426300, at00om60r6. Id of event: ak15426300. The temblor was picked up at 16:11:30 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.9 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Anchor Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Homer (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 43 km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.5297° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.6117° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-02 02:11:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-02 02:18:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 33 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 automatic 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 497 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak,at, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak15426300 Id of event.
Event Code 15426300 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15426300,at00om60r6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. Kimbra

    Felt it in Sterling

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