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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 282 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska

Posted by admin on January 31, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.8733S, -149.3636WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 282 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (175 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:25:38 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.96 km (8 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q4yyet, ak0201fgczv6, us60007l8q. Id of event: us60007l8q. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.3636 West, latitude 55.8733 North, depth = 12.96 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/20 / 2020-01-31 11:25:38 / January 31, 2020 @ 11:25 am.

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 four, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 282 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.3636° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.8733° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 282km SE of Kodiak, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-31 11:25:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 11:45:21 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 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,ak,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 2.559 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us60007l8q Id of event.
Event Code 60007l8q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q4yyet,ak0201fgczv6,us60007l8q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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