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Strong earthquake: M6.1 quake has struck near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 2, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.0319S, -178.225WA earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was reported 66 km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (41 miles) on Sunday. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:01:55 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: at00q1vcn7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q1vcn7. A tsunami warning has been issued near Amatignak Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.225 West, latitude 51.0319 North, depth = 35 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/12/19 / 2019-12-02 05:01:55 / December 2, 2019 @ 5:01 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 66 km ESE of Amatignak Island, 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 -178.225° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-02 05:01:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-02 05:08:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 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 572 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.284591 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215.99998272 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 at00q1vcn7 Id of event.
Event Code 00q1vcn7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q1vcn7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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