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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Homer in Alaska


Earthquake location 58.9369S, -152.3612WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Homer in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: at00ps5q39, ak0196r9o3rq. Unique identifier: ak0196r9o3rq. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.6 km (41 miles). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:52:21 / 11:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -152.3612 West, latitude 58.9369 North, depth = 66.6 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Homer in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/05/19 / 2019-05-27 09:52:21 / May 27, 2019 @ 9:52 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 91 km SSW of Homer, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.3612° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.9369° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km SSW of Homer, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-27 09:52:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-27 09:59:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.51 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 502 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 ,at,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 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 ak0196r9o3rq Id of event.
Event Code 0196r9o3rq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ps5q39,ak0196r9o3rq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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