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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 61 km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska

Posted by admin on February 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.169S, -179.9779WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 61 km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska (38 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.34 km (13 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -179.9779 West, latitude 51.169 North, depth = 21.34 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70007qeb. Event ids that are associated: ak02017daqk0, us70007qeb. Global time and date of event 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 22:33:39 / January 26, 2020 @ 10:33 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 10:33:39 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred, in the past 30 days one hundred and six and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 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: 61 km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.9779° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.169° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.34 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 22:33:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-24 03:26:21 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 5.349 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 0 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 ,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 0.499 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us70007qeb Id of event.
Event Code 70007qeb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02017daqk0,us70007qeb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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