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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag has occurred near Redoubt Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.9013S, -153.2756WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Redoubt Volcano in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, -153.2756° West, 59.9013° North, depth 121.42 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 121.42 km (75 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 02:35:58 / July 29, 2015 @ 2:35 am. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:35:58 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Redoubt Volcano in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ns89vx, us2000314u. Id of event: us2000314u.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Homer (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.2756° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.9013° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-29 02:35:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-29 02:58:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 264 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 731 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 ,at,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 0.619 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000314u Id of event.
Event Code 2000314u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ns89vx,us2000314u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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