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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 129 km SE of Perryville, Alaska

Posted by admin on August 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.9898S, -157.8894WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 129 km SE of Perryville, Alaska (80 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Perryville in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:28:32 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -157.8894° West, 54.9898° North, depth 44.7 km. Id of earthquake: ak020amc11hi. Event ids that are associated: at00qf9vbm, us6000bgpv, ak020amc11hi. The epicenter was at a depth of 44.7 km (28 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/08/20 / 2020-08-18 18:28:32 / August 18, 2020 @ 6:28 pm.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 129 km SE of Perryville, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -157.8894° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.9898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 129 km SE 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 2020-08-18 18:28:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-18 19:12:47 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 385 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 ,at,us,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 0.68 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 ak020amc11hi Id of event.
Event Code 020amc11hi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qf9vbm,us6000bgpv,ak020amc11hi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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