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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Skagway in Alaska

Posted by admin on September 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.9037S, -136.7498WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 94 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska (58 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 15:38:03 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000apcc. Event ids that are associated: at00owecbd, ak16836913, us2000apcc. A tsunami warning has been issued near Skagway in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/09/17 / 2017-09-16 23:38:03 / September 16, 2017 @ 11:38 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -136.7498 West, latitude 59.9037 North, depth = 10 km.

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 three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 94 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -136.7498° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.9037° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km 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 2017-09-16 23:38:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-17 00:02:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 112 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.74 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 438 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,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 0.57 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000apcc Id of event.
Event Code 2000apcc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00owecbd,ak16836913,us2000apcc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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