Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 106 km SSW of Adak, Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 106 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (66 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:47:28 / 3:47 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Adak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/05/17 / 2017-05-08 15:47:28 / May 8, 2017 @ 3:47 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles). Exact location, longitude -177.079° West, latitude 50.955° North, depth = 1 km. Unique identifier: at00opn574. Ids that are associated to the event: at00opn574.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 106 km SSW of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.079° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.955° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	106km SSW of Adak, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-08 15:47:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-08 15:52:09	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	500	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9594007	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	215.99998272	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	at00opn574	Id of event.
Event Code	00opn574	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00opn574,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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