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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.2224S, -148.5898WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 290 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (180 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/10/19 / 2019-10-12 02:44:20 / October 12, 2019 @ 2:44 am UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:44:20 / 4:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -148.5898° West, 56.2224° North. Id of earthquake: us70005tle. Event ids that are associated: at00pz8q9w, us70005tle.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 290 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.5898° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.2224° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 290km SE of Kodiak, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-12 02:44:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-12 03:03:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 385 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 2.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005tle Id of event.
Event Code 70005tle An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pz8q9w,us70005tle, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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