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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Yunaska Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.3301S, -170.1468WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 50 km SE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (31 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/10/19 / 2019-10-26 00:41:25 / October 26, 2019 @ 12:41 am. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:41:25 / 1:41 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pzyhwz, us6000632m. Id of event: us6000632m. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.77 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Yunaska Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -170.1468° West, latitude 52.3301° North, depth = 33.77 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 50 km SE of Yunaska Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.1468° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3301° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km SE of Yunaska 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 2019-10-26 00:41:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-26 00:56:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 518 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 1.016 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us6000632m Id of event.
Event Code 6000632m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pzyhwz,us6000632m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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