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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 73 km S of Atka, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5381S, -174.056WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 73 km S of Atka, Alaska (45 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.7 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 01:37:25 / April 14, 2016 @ 1:37 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -174.056 West, latitude 51.5381 North, depth = 29.7 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20005hxt. Event ids that are associated: ak13433513, us20005hxt. The temblor was picked up at 13:37:25 / 1:37 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 73 km S of Atka, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.056° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5381° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km S of Atka, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-14 01:37:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-14 03:07:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 2.79 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 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 ,ak,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 1.363 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us20005hxt Id of event.
Event Code 20005hxt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13433513,us20005hxt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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