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Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.439S, -178.465WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 48 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (30 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -178.465° West, latitude 51.439° North, depth = 1 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00opq8vv. Id of event: at00opq8vv. A tsunami warning has been issued near Amatignak Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 10/05/17 / 2017-05-10 07:59:55 / May 10, 2017 @ 7:59 am UTC/GMT. The 6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:59:55 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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: 48 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.465° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.439° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km 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 2017-05-10 07:59:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-10 08:05:11 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 554 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3853773 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194.399984448 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 at00opq8vv Id of event.
Event Code 00opq8vv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00opq8vv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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