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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.478S, -148.619WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 271 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (168 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/20 / 2020-03-20 07:53:26 / March 20, 2020 @ 7:53 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -148.619° West, latitude 56.478° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us70008crg. Event ids that are associated: at00q7hf91, us70008crg. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:53:26 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 271 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.619° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.478° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 271km ESE 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 2020-03-20 07:53:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-20 08:08:50 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,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 2.526 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us70008crg Id of event.
Event Code 70008crg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q7hf91,us70008crg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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