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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.771S, -179.918WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 78 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (48 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 55 km, -179.918° West, 50.771° North. Id of earthquake: at00q4pbw3. Event ids that are associated: at00q4pbw3. Global time and date of event 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 06:40:51 / January 26, 2020 @ 6:40 am UTC/GMT. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:40:51 / 6:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Amatignak Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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 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: 78 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.918° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.771° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km SW of Amatignak 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 2020-01-26 06:40:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 06:46:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 400 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.780636 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.599982432 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 at00q4pbw3 Id of event.
Event Code 00q4pbw3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q4pbw3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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