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Strong earthquake: M6.1 quake has struck near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 22, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.9322S, -159.0423WA earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was reported 103 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska (64 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 17.67 km, -159.0423° West, 54.9322° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/07/20 / 2020-07-22 06:16:18 / July 22, 2020 @ 6:16 am. The temblor was detected at 06:16:18 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.67 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000asx4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000asx4. 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 nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourty-nine 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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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. 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: 103 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.0423° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.9322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-22 06:16:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-22 07:39:48 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 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 0.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us7000asx4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000asx4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000asx4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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