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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Kiska Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9553S, 177.1431WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 35 km WSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (22 miles) on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 66.01 km (41 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 177.1431 East, latitude 51.9553 North, depth = 66.01 km. Event id: us10002mj9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nqr6ow, us10002mj9. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kiska Volcano in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:34:11 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/06/15 / 2015-06-30 10:34:11 / June 30, 2015 @ 10:34 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 35 km WSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.1431° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9553° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km WSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-30 10:34:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-30 10:52:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 416 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 ,at,us, 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 1.462 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002mj9 Id of event.
Event Code 10002mj9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nqr6ow,us10002mj9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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