Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Gulf of Alaska (0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/18 / 2018-03-09 00:37:16 / March 9, 2018 @ 12:37 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: at00p5ase4. Ids that are associated to the event: at00p5ase4. The temblor was picked up at 14:37:16 / 2:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -149.285 West, latitude 55.534 North, depth = 20 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 four, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.285° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.534° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Gulf of Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-09 00:37:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-09 00:41:24	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	400	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.792862	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	205.199983584	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00p5ase4	Id of event.
Event Code	00p5ase4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00p5ase4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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