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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Perryville in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 9, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.9851S, -158.8266WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 21 km ENE of Perryville, Alaska (13 miles) on Sunday. Id of earthquake: ak020a7dzo4b. Event ids that are associated: ak020a7dzo4b. Global time and date of event 09/08/20 / 2020-08-09 14:58:00 / August 9, 2020 @ 2:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -158.8266 West, latitude 55.9851 North, depth = 37.4 km. The temblor was detected at 14:58:00 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.4 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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: 21 km ENE of Perryville, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.8266° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9851° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km ENE of Perryville, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-09 14:58:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-09 15:53:40 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 automatic 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 ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak020a7dzo4b Id of event.
Event Code 020a7dzo4b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020a7dzo4b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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