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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 24 km NNE of Attu Station, Alaska


Earthquake location 53.0597S, 173.2841WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 24 km NNE of Attu Station, Alaska (15 miles) on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/10/19 / 2019-10-26 20:28:48 / October 26, 2019 @ 8:28 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.03 km (7 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:28:48 / 10:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Attu Station in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: at00q000w3, us600063e4. Unique identifier: us600063e4. Exact location of event, longitude 173.2841 East, latitude 53.0597 North, depth = 12.03 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km NNE of Attu Station, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.2841° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.0597° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NNE of Attu Station, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-26 20:28:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-26 20:50:12 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 5.454 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 0.595 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us600063e4 Id of event.
Event Code 600063e4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q000w3,us600063e4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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