Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Nikolski in Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 210 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska (130 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -171.193 West, latitude 51.689 North, depth = 43 km. Event id: at00qf6ahx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00qf6ahx. The temblor was detected at 20:05:57 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/08/20 / 2020-08-16 20:05:57 / August 16, 2020 @ 8:05 pm.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 210 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-171.193° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.689° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	210 km SW 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	2020-08-16 20:05:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-16 20:14:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	500	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	79	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	179.9999856	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00qf6ahx	Id of event.
Event Code	00qf6ahx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00qf6ahx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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