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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 41 km SSW of Adak, Alaska

Posted by admin on February 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.516S, -176.814WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 41 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (25 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Adak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/02/18 / 2018-02-16 00:00:15 / February 16, 2018 @ 12:00 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21 km (13 miles). Id of earthquake: at00p47uof. Event ids that are associated: at00p47uof. The temblor was picked up at 14:00:15 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -176.814 West, latitude 51.516 North, depth = 21 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-seven 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: 41 km SSW of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.814° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.516° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km 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 2018-02-16 00:00:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 00:03:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3754958 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 197.99998416 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 at00p47uof Id of event.
Event Code 00p47uof An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p47uof, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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