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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag has occurred near Atka in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 9, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.7353S, -173.066WA earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was reported 93 km ESE of Atka, Alaska (58 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 04:03:45 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Atka in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 16:03:45 / November 9, 2015 @ 4:03 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10003vyx. Event ids that are associated: at00nxk1ya, us10003vyx. Exact location of earthquake, -173.066° West, 51.7353° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 135 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 93 km ESE of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.066° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7353° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km ESE of Atka, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-09 16:03:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-09 16:23:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.3 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 591 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 1.889 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003vyx Id of event.
Event Code 10003vyx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nxk1ya,us10003vyx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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