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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag was detected near Amsterdam Island in France

Posted by admin on April 12, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -36.9637S, 77.4459WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) strikes 96 km N of Amsterdam Island, France (60 miles) on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008um8. Unique identifier: us70008um8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 06:57:47 / April 12, 2020 @ 6:57 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 77.4459° East, -36.9637° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 11:57:47 / 11:57 am (local time epicenter).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 96 km N of Amsterdam Island, France.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 77.4459° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -36.9637° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km N of Amsterdam Island, France Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-12 06:57:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-12 07:14:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 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 572 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 ,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 0.836 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us70008um8 Id of event.
Event Code 70008um8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008um8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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