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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Kiska Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.6186S, 177.3666WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 56 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (35 miles) on Saturday. Event id: us2000czsn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00p3wfbw, us2000czsn. Exact location of earthquake, 177.3666° East, 51.6186° North, depth 43.67 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.67 km (27 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/02/18 / 2018-02-09 19:55:15 / February 9, 2018 @ 7:55 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kiska Volcano in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:55:15 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter).

Each 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 twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 56 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.3666° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6186° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km SSW of Kiska 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 2018-02-09 19:55:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-09 20:11:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 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 ,at,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 1.232 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 102 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 us2000czsn Id of event.
Event Code 2000czsn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p3wfbw,us2000czsn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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