Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 280 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (174 miles). Id of earthquake: at00q7hf91. Event ids that are associated: at00q7hf91. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:53:25 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/20 / 2020-03-20 07:53:25 / March 20, 2020 @ 7:53 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 2 km, -148.574° West, 56.383° North.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 280 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-148.574° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.383° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	280km 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 07:53:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-20 07:57:17	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	385	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.597029	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176.399985888	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	at00q7hf91	Id of event.
Event Code	00q7hf91	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00q7hf91,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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