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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Cohoe in Alaska

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Cohoe in Alaska. Unique identifier: ak15950938. Ids that are associated to the event: ak15950938, at00opkey6. Exact location of event, longitude -151.6604 West, latitude 60.1767 North, depth = 74.4 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Cohoe in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.4 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 19:25:18 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/05/17 / 2017-05-07 04:25:18 / May 7, 2017 @ 4:25 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sterling, Homer, Kenai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SW of Cohoe, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Alaska Cohoe Homer Kalifornsky Kenai Sterling United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.6604° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.1767° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	74.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km SW of Cohoe, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-07 04:25:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-07 04:32:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	57	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	automatic	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	472	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,at,	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ak15950938	Id of event.
Event Code	15950938	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak15950938,at00opkey6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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