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Strong earthquake 6.6 mag, 38 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska

Posted by admin on May 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.3519S, -178.582WA earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was reported 38 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (24 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Amatignak Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/17 / 2017-05-08 17:00:42 / May 8, 2017 @ 5:00 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: at00opn8l6. Unique identifier: at00opn8l6. Exact location of event, longitude -178.582 West, latitude 51.3519 North, depth = 1 km. The 6.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:00:42 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1 km (1 miles).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes 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. 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: 38 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.582° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3519° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-08 17:00:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-08 17:05:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 670 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4428694 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 2.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197.99998416 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00opn8l6 Id of event.
Event Code 00opn8l6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00opn8l6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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