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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Attu Station in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.686S, 172.546WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 46 km WSW of Attu Station, Alaska (29 miles). Global time and date of event 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 09:56:40 / July 4, 2015 @ 9:56 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 172.546 East, latitude 52.686 North, depth = 7 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Attu Station in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:56:40 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: at00nqyjmg. Event ids that are associated: at00nqyjmg.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 46 km WSW of Attu Station, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 172.546° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.686° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km WSW of Attu Station, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-04 09:56:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-04 10:01:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 500 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.94682431 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172.8 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 at00nqyjmg Id of event.
Event Code 00nqyjmg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nqyjmg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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