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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Nikolski in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 9, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.472S, -169.177WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 55 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (34 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikolski in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.177 West, latitude 52.472 North, depth = 16 km. Unique identifier: at00ouel3s. Ids that are associated to the event: at00ouel3s. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:40:40 / 6:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/17 / 2017-08-09 05:40:40 / August 9, 2017 @ 5:40 am.

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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 55 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.177° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.472° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km SSW 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 2017-08-09 05:40:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-09 05:44:35 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 432 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5389892 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 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 Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00ouel3s Id of event.
Event Code 00ouel3s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ouel3s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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