Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 54 km WSW of Adak, Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 54 km WSW of Adak, Alaska (34 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/07/20 / 2020-07-15 08:59:55 / July 15, 2020 @ 8:59 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Adak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: at00qdi6bv. Unique identifier: at00qdi6bv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, depth 12 km, -177.413° West, 51.777° North. The temblor was reported at 08:59:55 / 8:59 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km WSW of Adak, 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	-177.413° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.777° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 km WSW of Adak, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-15 08:59:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-15 09:06:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.464429	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	183.599985312	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00qdi6bv	Id of event.
Event Code	00qdi6bv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00qdi6bv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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