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Strong earthquake 6.7 mag, 60 km WSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska

Posted by admin on October 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.972S, 176.7529WA earthquake magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 60 km WSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (37 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 120 km (75 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kiska Volcano in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/10/17 / 2017-10-08 22:34:33 / October 8, 2017 @ 10:34 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 176.7529 East, latitude 51.972 North, depth = 120 km. The temblor was detected at 10:34:33 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00oxj01l. Id of event: at00oxj01l.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km WSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.7529° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.972° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km WSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-08 22:34:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-08 22:40:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 691 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.691528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172.799986176 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 at00oxj01l Id of event.
Event Code 00oxj01l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00oxj01l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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