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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.863S, -179.912WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 71 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (44 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42 km (26 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q4pdw7. Id of event: at00q4pdw7. Global time and date of event 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 07:24:07 / January 26, 2020 @ 7:24 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Amatignak Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -179.912° West, 50.863° North, depth 42 km. The temblor was reported at 19:24:07 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter).

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 nine, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 71 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.912° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.863° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 07:24:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 07:29:20 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 385 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230.399981568 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 at00q4pdw7 Id of event.
Event Code 00q4pdw7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q4pdw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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