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Strong earthquake: M6.3 quake has struck near Atka in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.6239S, -174.0048WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 65 km SSE of Atka, Alaska (40 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:06:46 / 6:06 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). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -174.0048 West, latitude 51.6239 North, depth = 22.35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 18:06:46 / March 12, 2016 @ 6:06 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o3xubc, us10004x1w, ak12969564. Id of event: us10004x1w. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.35 km (14 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 five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 65 km SSE of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.0048° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6239° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km SSE 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 2016-03-12 18:06:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-12 18:27:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.26 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 611 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,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 1.359 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us10004x1w Id of event.
Event Code 10004x1w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o3xubc,us10004x1w,ak12969564, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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