Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Attu Station in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 194 km WNW of Attu Station, Alaska (121 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/01/20 / 2020-01-01 18:10:14 / January 1, 2020 @ 6:10 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.41 km (15 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: at00q3fx53, us70006t7e. Unique identifier: us70006t7e. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:10:14 / 5:10 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). Exact location of event, longitude 170.378 East, latitude 53.269 North, depth = 24.41 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 four and in the last 365 days eleven 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 194 km WNW of Attu Station, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	170.378° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.269° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	194km WNW 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	2020-01-01 18:10:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-01 18:22:10	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	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	2.314	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us70006t7e	Id of event.
Event Code	70006t7e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00q3fx53,us70006t7e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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