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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Chernabura Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.264S, -160.667WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 92 km SW of Chernabura Island, Alaska (57 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pc2t20. Id of event: at00pc2t20. A tsunami warning has been issued near Chernabura Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:06:00 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 19:06:00 / July 18, 2018 @ 7:06 pm. Exact location, longitude -160.667° West, latitude 54.264° 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 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 92 km SW of Chernabura Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.264° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km SW of Chernabura Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-18 19:06:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-18 19:16:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 465 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.092351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201.599983872 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 at00pc2t20 Id of event.
Event Code 00pc2t20 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pc2t20, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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