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USGS revises False Pass, Alaska, quake to magnitude 5.0
The U.S. Geological Survey listed a reviewed magnitude 5.0 earthquake 143 kilometers south of False Pass, Alaska, at 4:14 p.m. EDT Thursday, the same event earlier posted as magnitude 4.8, with no tsunami flag.
- New headline Was: “USGS records magnitude 4.8 quake 139 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska”
- Our desk updated its story
The U.S. Geological Survey listed a reviewed magnitude 5.0 earthquake 143 kilometers south of False Pass, Alaska, at 8:14 p.m. UTC Thursday (4:14 p.m. EDT).
The preferred origin, from the National Earthquake Information Center, placed the quake at 15.6 kilometers depth near 53.584 degrees north and 163.028 degrees west, magnitude type mww.
USGS event identifiers linked that origin to an earlier Alaska Earthquake Center listing of magnitude 4.8 (ml) 139 kilometers south-southeast of False Pass at 9.3 kilometers depth, at nearly the same origin time1.
The preferred event page showed a tsunami flag of 0, no PAGER alert color, and no felt-report count. The survey did not report damage, injuries or a tsunami warning in the origin summary1.