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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Adak in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 29, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.0206S, -177.0151WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 98 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (61 miles) on Monday. Id of earthquake: us10008rwy. Event ids that are associated: ak15988384, us10008rwy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/05/17 / 2017-05-08 15:35:03 / May 8, 2017 @ 3:35 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.0151 West, latitude 51.0206 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:35:03 / 3:35 am (local time epicenter).

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 sixty-eight, in the last 10 days seventy-seven, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 98 km SSW of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.0151° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0206° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km 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 15:35:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-29 18:41:05 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 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 416 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 ,ak,us, 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 0.837 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us10008rwy Id of event.
Event Code 10008rwy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15988384,us10008rwy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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