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Strong earthquake 6 mag, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Posted by admin on January 5, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.9799S, -178.242WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) strikes Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 18:47:11 / 6:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -178.242° West, latitude 50.9799° North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: at00pkvg6n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pkvg6n. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/01/19 / 2019-01-05 18:47:11 / January 5, 2019 @ 6:47 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.242° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.9799° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-05 18:47:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-05 18:53:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.863281 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237.599980992 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 at00pkvg6n Id of event.
Event Code 00pkvg6n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pkvg6n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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