Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag was detected near Olonkinbyen in Svalbard and Jan Mayen

A earthquake with magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 119 kilometers (74 miles) from Olonkinbyen in Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -11.2399 West, latitude 71.6226 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00phwl2s, pt18313000, us1000hpim. Id of event: us1000hpim. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:49:40 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Olonkinbyen in Svalbard and Jan Mayen (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/18 / 2018-11-09 01:49:40 / November 9, 2018 @ 1:49 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Olonkinbyen. Close country/countries that might be effected, Svalbard and Jan Mayen (c. 3 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 119 km (74 miles) from Olonkinbyen (c. 0 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 119 km NW of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

Olonkinbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-11.2399° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	71.6226° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	119km NW of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-09 01:49:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-09 02:10:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-60	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	4.58	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	711	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	,at,pt,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	7.846	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us1000hpim	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hpim	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00phwl2s,pt18313000,us1000hpim,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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