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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.505S, 178.224WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 53 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (33 miles) on Thursday. Unique identifier: at00omj03r. Ids that are associated to the event: at00omj03r. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 146 km (91 miles). The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:26:15 / 2:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 146 km, 178.224° East, 51.505° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/03/17 / 2017-03-09 02:26:15 / March 9, 2017 @ 2:26 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.224° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.505° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 146 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SSW 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 02:26:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-09 02:32:59 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 449 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.904428 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201.599983872 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00omj03r Id of event.
Event Code 00omj03r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00omj03r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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