Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9, Tsunami warning alerts

Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.8251S, -167.4425WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 96 km E of Nikolski, Alaska (60 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -167.4425 West, latitude 52.8251 North, depth = 25.6 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikolski in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/07/19 / 2019-07-09 18:43:43 / July 9, 2019 @ 6:43 pm. The temblor was reported at 07:43:43 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak0198qj31sv. Event ids that are associated: at00pue1ct, ak0198qj31sv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.6 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

Did you feel anything?

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. 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: 96 km E of Nikolski, Alaska.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -167.4425° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8251° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km E of Nikolski, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-09 18:43:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 18:52:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 400 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 0.64 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 ak0198qj31sv Id of event.
Event Code 0198qj31sv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pue1ct,ak0198qj31sv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply