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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag has occurred near Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge


Earthquake location 22.6551S, -45.2011WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 13:26:35 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/06/16 / 2016-06-21 16:26:35 / June 21, 2016 @ 4:26 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -45.2011 West, latitude 22.6551 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us200065s1. Unique identifier: us200065s1.

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -45.2011° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.6551° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-21 16:26:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-21 16:55:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 0 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 572 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 ,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 16.229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us200065s1 Id of event.
Event Code 200065s1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065s1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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