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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Yunaska Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 31, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.5838S, -169.7104WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 67 km E of Yunaska Island, Alaska (42 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/07/15 / 2015-07-31 19:17:18 / July 31, 2015 @ 7:17 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.22 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002wyl, ak11665612. Id of event: us10002wyl. Exact location, longitude -169.7104° West, latitude 52.5838° North, depth = 42.22 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:17:18 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter).

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 three, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and one and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 67 km E of Yunaska Island, 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 -169.7104° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.5838° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km E of Yunaska Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-31 19:17:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-31 19:40:15 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 3.5 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.649 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us10002wyl Id of event.
Event Code 10002wyl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002wyl,ak11665612, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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