Major earthquake: M7 quake strikes near Chirik

A major earthquake magnitude 7 (mg/mb) has struck on Thursday, 111 kilometers (69 miles) from Chirik. The temblor was reported at 21:00:08 / 9:00 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 51 km (32 miles). Global time of event 29/05/15 / 2015-05-29 07:00:08 / May 29, 2015 @ 7:00 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Chirik, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -156.5783 West, latitude 56.6893 North, depth 51 km, unique identifier, ak11610140. Ids that are associated to the event, ,pt15149050,at00np3ng8,us20002k91,ak11610140,.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.5783° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.6893° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	111km NNW of Chirikof 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	2015-05-29 07:00:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-05-29 08:01:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	126	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.19	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	automatic	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	813	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,us,ak,	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak11610140	Id of event.
Event Code	11610140	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt15149050,at00np3ng8,us20002k91,ak11610140,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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