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Strong earthquake 6.3 mag, 84 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska


Earthquake location 59.7444S, -136.7022WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 84 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska (52 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10008mgu. Ids that are associated to the event: at00opa2ee, ak15854231, us10008mgu. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:18:15 / 6:18 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/05/17 / 2017-05-01 14:18:15 / May 1, 2017 @ 2:18 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -136.7022 West, latitude 59.7444 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Skagway in Alaska (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. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 84 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -136.7022° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.7444° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km WNW of Skagway, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-01 14:18:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-01 14:38:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 164 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.25 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 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 711 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,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 0.537 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us10008mgu Id of event.
Event Code 10008mgu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00opa2ee,ak15854231,us10008mgu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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