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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 53 km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska

Posted by admin on January 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.175S, -179.8598WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 53 km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska (33 miles). The temblor was reported at 04:41:43 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 16:41:43 / January 28, 2020 @ 4:41 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -179.8598° West, latitude 51.175° North, depth = 35 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007i8r. Id of event: us60007i8r.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.8598° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.175° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-28 16:41:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-28 17:08:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 0 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 432 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 ,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 0.565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us60007i8r Id of event.
Event Code 60007i8r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007i8r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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