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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Kodiak Station in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.6955S, -152.2353WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 121 km S of Kodiak Station, Alaska (75 miles). Unique identifier: us70006plt. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006plt. Exact location, longitude -152.2353° West, latitude 56.6955° North, depth = 21.01 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 12:52:38 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/12/19 / 2019-12-21 22:52:38 / December 21, 2019 @ 10:52 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.01 km (13 miles).

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

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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. 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: 121 km S of Kodiak Station, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.2353° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.6955° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 121km S of Kodiak Station, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-21 22:52:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-21 23:10:35 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 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 385 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 ,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 2.886 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us70006plt Id of event.
Event Code 70006plt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006plt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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