Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 34 km W of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (21 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/04/19 / 2019-04-14 15:30:39 / April 14, 2019 @ 3:30 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:30:39 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 178.007 East, latitude 51.889 North, depth = 42 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: at00ppyj33. Event ids that are associated: at00ppyj33.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 34 km W of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	178.007° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.889° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km W of Little Sitkin 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	2019-04-14 15:30:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-14 15:37:09	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	482	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	80	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.013125	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	179.9999856	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00ppyj33	Id of event.
Event Code	00ppyj33	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00ppyj33,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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