Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 134 km SE of Akutan, Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 134 km SE of Akutan, Alaska (83 miles). Unique identifier: at00oqg2aw. Ids that are associated to the event: at00oqg2aw. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/05/17 / 2017-05-24 06:35:20 / May 24, 2017 @ 6:35 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Akutan in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -164.415° West, 53.233° North, depth 84 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 84 km (52 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:35:20 / 7:35 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 134 km SE of Akutan, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-164.415° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.233° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	134km SE of Akutan, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-24 06:35:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-24 06:39:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	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	385	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	54	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.210031	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208.799983296	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	at00oqg2aw	Id of event.
Event Code	00oqg2aw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00oqg2aw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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