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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 32 km WSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8074S, -178.6008WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 32 km WSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (20 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:08:33 / 7:08 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008qi0. Unique identifier: us10008qi0. Exact location of earthquake, -178.6008° West, 51.8074° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/17 / 2017-05-08 17:08:33 / May 8, 2017 @ 5:08 pm.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 six, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 32 km WSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.6008° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8074° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km WSW of Tanaga 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 2017-05-08 17:08:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-08 17:28:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 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 ,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 0.899 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us10008qi0 Id of event.
Event Code 10008qi0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008qi0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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