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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.41S, -166.6448WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 161 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska (100 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikolski in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -166.6448° West, latitude 52.41° North, depth = 11.89 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.89 km (7 miles). Global time and date of event 24/05/17 / 2017-05-24 16:36:01 / May 24, 2017 @ 4:36 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10008uvv. Event ids that are associated: at00oqgu41, us10008uvv, ak16125084. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:36:01 / 5:36 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 161 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -166.6448° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.41° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 161km ESE of Nikolski, 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 16:36:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-24 16:54:28 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 3.29 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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,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 1.44 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008uvv Id of event.
Event Code 10008uvv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00oqgu41,us10008uvv,ak16125084, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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