Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Easter Island region

A earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Easter Island region (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dw7i. Unique identifier: us1000dw7i. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 06:32:52 / May 2, 2018 @ 6:32 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.53 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -111.7234° West, -24.0993° South, depth 23.53 km. The 6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:32:52 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter).

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. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Easter Island region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.7234° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-24.0993° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Easter Island region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-05-02 06:32:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-02 21:18:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	2.51	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	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	36.053	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.18 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	us1000dw7i	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dw7i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dw7i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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