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Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Franz Josef Land

Posted by admin on October 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 86.8932S, 55.1348WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, North of Franz Josef Land (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:11:01 / 11:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 55.1348 East, latitude 86.8932 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000ay3r. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ay3r. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/17 / 2017-10-28 19:11:01 / October 28, 2017 @ 7:11 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: North of Franz Josef Land.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 55.1348° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 86.8932° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place North of Franz Josef Land Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-28 19:11:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-28 19:27:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 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 0 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 554 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 9.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us1000ay3r Id of event.
Event Code 1000ay3r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ay3r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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