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Strong earthquake: M6.3 quake has struck near Balleny Islands region


Earthquake location -61.7431S, 154.5526WA earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Balleny Islands region (0 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:48:58 / 6:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/10/17 / 2017-10-08 20:48:58 / October 8, 2017 @ 8:48 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000b2v1. Event ids that are associated: us2000b2v1. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 154.5526° East, -61.7431° South.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: Balleny Islands region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.5526° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -61.7431° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Balleny Islands region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-08 20:48:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-08 21:05:41 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 0 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 611 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 7.628 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us2000b2v1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000b2v1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b2v1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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