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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Nikolski in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 19, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.201S, -170.894WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 160 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska (99 miles) on Sunday. Global time and date of event 19/05/24 / 2024-05-19 11:21:16 / May 19, 2024 @ 11:21 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000mzmv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mzmv, ak0246fpwwul. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:21:16 / 11:21 am (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 38.847 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -170.894 West, latitude 52.201 North, depth = 38.847 km.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 160 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.894° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.847 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-19 11:21:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-19 13:48:42 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 3.048 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 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 385 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 ,us,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 126 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.837 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mzmv Id of event.
Event Code 6000mzmv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mzmv,ak0246fpwwul, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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