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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Skagway in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.7693S, -136.6779WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 84 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska (52 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008ptp, ak16020507. Id of event: us10008ptp. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -136.6779° West, latitude 59.7693° North, depth = 10 km. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:21:13 / 6:21 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 01/05/17 / 2017-05-01 14:21:13 / May 1, 2017 @ 2:21 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 84 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -136.6779° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.7693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km WNW of Skagway, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-01 14:21:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-16 16:03:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 0 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 501 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 ,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 0.752 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us10008ptp Id of event.
Event Code 10008ptp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008ptp,ak16020507, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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