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Strong earthquake: M6.8 quake has struck near Northern East Pacific Rise

Posted by admin on April 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.2512S, -103.7616WA earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Northern East Pacific Rise (0 miles). Event id: us10005cc4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o6dgc2, pt16120050, us10005cc4. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -103.7616° West, 10.2512° North. Global time and date of event 29/04/16 / 2016-04-29 01:33:38 / April 29, 2016 @ 1:33 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 18:33:38 / 6:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Northern East Pacific Rise (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: Northern East Pacific Rise.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.7616° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.2512° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Northern East Pacific Rise Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-29 01:33:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-29 01:52:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 711 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,pt,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 8.845 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005cc4 Id of event.
Event Code 10005cc4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o6dgc2,pt16120050,us10005cc4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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