Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Tanana in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 18 km ENE of Tanana, Alaska (11 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 16:57:27 / October 27, 2018 @ 4:57 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.2 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 9.2 km, -151.706° West, 65.2281° North. Unique identifier: ak20292186. Ids that are associated to the event: ak20292186. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:57:27 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km ENE of Tanana, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.706° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	65.2281° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km ENE of Tanana, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-27 16:57:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-27 17:13:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.94	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	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	453	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak20292186	Id of event.
Event Code	20292186	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak20292186,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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