Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag was detected near Fais in Micronesia

A earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 35 km NW of Fais, Micronesia (22 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt17342002, at00p0mzdc. Id of event: at00p0mzdc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Fais in Micronesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 62 km, 140.3° East, 10° North. The temblor was detected at 18:51:12 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/17 / 2017-12-08 09:51:12 / December 8, 2017 @ 9:51 am.

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km NW of Fais, Micronesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.3° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km NW of Fais, Micronesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-08 09:51:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-08 10:01:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	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	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61.199995104	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	at00p0mzdc	Id of event.
Event Code	00p0mzdc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt17342002,at00p0mzdc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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