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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 31, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.94S, -149.323WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 278 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (173 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:25:41 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/01/20 / 2020-01-31 11:25:41 / January 31, 2020 @ 11:25 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q4yyet. Id of event: at00q4yyet. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.323 West, latitude 55.94 North, depth = 20 km.

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-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 278 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.94° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 278km 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 11:25:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 11:32:26 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 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 79 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 1.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147.599988192 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00q4yyet Id of event.
Event Code 00q4yyet An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q4yyet, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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