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Strong earthquake: M6.5 quake has struck near Fais in Micronesia

Posted by admin on December 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.1459S, 140.2051WA earthquake with magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) was reported 54 km NW of Fais, Micronesia (34 miles) on Friday. The temblor was detected at 09:22:53 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Fais in Micronesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.48 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 7.48 km, 140.2051° East, 10.1459° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/17 / 2017-12-08 00:22:53 / December 8, 2017 @ 12:22 am. Unique identifier: us2000c1wt. Ids that are associated to the event: pt17342000, at00p0m19s, us2000c1wt.

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 54 km NW of Fais, Micronesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.2051° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.1459° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km 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 00:22:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-08 00:43:01 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 5.03 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 650 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 ,pt,at,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 5.704 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 us2000c1wt Id of event.
Event Code 2000c1wt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt17342000,at00p0m19s,us2000c1wt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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