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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag strikes near Skagway in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.8438S, -136.6945WA earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was reported 88 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska (55 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Skagway in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.18 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/17 / 2017-05-01 12:31:54 / May 1, 2017 @ 12:31 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00op9xh5, ak15852756, us10008mel. Id of event: us10008mel. Exact location, longitude -136.6945° West, latitude 59.8438° North, depth = 2.18 km. The temblor was detected at 04:31:54 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 88 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -136.6945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.8438° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km WNW of Skagway, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-01 12:31:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-01 12:58:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 357 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.62 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 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 806 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,ak,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 0.57 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 us10008mel Id of event.
Event Code 10008mel An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00op9xh5,ak15852756,us10008mel, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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