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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 19 km NNW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.1101S, 178.3848WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 19 km NNW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (12 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 178.3848° East, latitude 52.1101° North, depth = 121.92 km. The temblor was detected at 16:26:19 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/17 / 2017-03-09 02:26:19 / March 9, 2017 @ 2:26 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 121.92 km (76 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00omj03r, ak15452884, us100087v3. Id of event: us100087v3.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km NNW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.3848° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.1101° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNW of Little Sitkin 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 2017-03-09 02:26:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-09 03:23:13 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 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 432 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,ak,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 2.694 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us100087v3 Id of event.
Event Code 100087v3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00omj03r,ak15452884,us100087v3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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