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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag has occurred near Cold Bay in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 31, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.4279S, -161.4719WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 116 km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska (72 miles). Exact location, longitude -161.4719° West, latitude 54.4279° North, depth = 26.92 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pkkxve, ak20603917, us2000izcv. Id of event: us2000izcv. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:35:37 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Cold Bay in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/12/18 / 2018-12-31 02:35:37 / December 31, 2018 @ 2:35 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.92 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 116 km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -161.4719° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4279° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-31 02:35:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-31 02:56:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.07 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 573 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,ak,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 0.946 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us2000izcv Id of event.
Event Code 2000izcv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pkkxve,ak20603917,us2000izcv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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