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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.337S, -178.1772WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 60 km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (37 miles) on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/08/18 / 2018-08-17 04:35:29 / August 17, 2018 @ 4:35 am. Exact location of earthquake, -178.1772° West, 51.337° North, depth 24.59 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000gb5u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pdl8r5, us1000gb5u. The temblor was picked up at 18:35:29 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.59 km (15 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.1772° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.337° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-17 04:35:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-17 04:53:32 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 416 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,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 1.582 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us1000gb5u Id of event.
Event Code 1000gb5u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pdl8r5,us1000gb5u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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