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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Kobuk in Alaska


Earthquake location 66.3146S, -156.9388WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) strikes 66 km S of Kobuk, Alaska (41 miles) on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/03/19 / 2019-03-26 21:27:19 / March 26, 2019 @ 9:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -156.9388° West, 66.3146° North, depth 0.5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.5 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 12:27:19 / 12:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0193wxcfea, us1000jm0q. Id of event: ak0193wxcfea.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes 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. 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: 66 km S of Kobuk, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.9388° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 66.3146° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km S of Kobuk, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-26 21:27:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-26 21:52:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.16 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 automatic 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 555 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ak0193wxcfea Id of event.
Event Code 0193wxcfea An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0193wxcfea,us1000jm0q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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