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Strong earthquake, 6.4 mag strikes near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.8118S, -178.5725WA earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 30 km WSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (19 miles). The 6.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:00:47 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.5725 West, latitude 51.8118 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/17 / 2017-05-08 17:00:47 / May 8, 2017 @ 5:00 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: at00opn8l6, ak15989885, us10008qhu. Unique identifier: us10008qhu.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km WSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.5725° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8118° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km WSW of Tanaga 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 2017-05-08 17:00:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-08 17:26:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 6.47 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 630 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 0.881 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us10008qhu Id of event.
Event Code 10008qhu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00opn8l6,ak15989885,us10008qhu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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