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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.3133S, -179.9871WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 61 km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska (38 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 22:33:40 / January 26, 2020 @ 10:33 pm. The temblor was picked up at 10:33:40 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -179.9871° West, 51.3133° North, depth 35 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Amatignak Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q4qk03, us60007gra. Id of event: us60007gra.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 61 km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.9871° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3133° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km W 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 22:33:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 22:46:13 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 500 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 0.451 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 174 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 us60007gra Id of event.
Event Code 60007gra An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q4qk03,us60007gra, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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