Strong earthquake: M6.1 quake has struck near Amatignak Island in Alaska

A earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was reported 66 km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (41 miles) on Sunday. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:01:55 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: at00q1vcn7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q1vcn7. A tsunami warning has been issued near Amatignak Island in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.225 West, latitude 51.0319 North, depth = 35 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/12/19 / 2019-12-02 05:01:55 / December 2, 2019 @ 5:01 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.225° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.0319° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-02 05:01:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-02 05:08:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-720	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	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	572	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	66	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.284591	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	215.99998272	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00q1vcn7	Id of event.
Event Code	00q1vcn7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00q1vcn7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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