Image via WikipediaBREAKING WORLD EARTHQUAKE NEWS!By Randy Economy
5:24 a.m. PST
The FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA has been rocked with a huge 6.8 earthquake within the past hour. According to the United States Geological Association the earthquake was first thought to be a 7.1 but it has now been downgraded. A Tsunami Warning is canceled for the coastal areas from Unimak Pass, Alaska (80 miles NE of Dutch Harbor) to Amchitka Pass, Alaska (125 miles W of Adak). NO destructive tsunami has been recorded, and NO tsunami danger exists along the coasts of the U.S. west coast states, Alaska, and British Columbia. I have friends who are on a cruise right now in this area. Hope everything is okay. At 2:56 AM Alaskan Daylight Time on September 2, an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 7.1 occurred 45 miles/72 Km southeast of Amukta Pass, Alaska .
Earthquake Details
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
| Magnitude | 6.8 |
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| Location | 52.185°N, 171.684°W |
| Depth | 35.5 km (22.1 miles) |
| Region | FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA |
| Distances | 45 km (27 miles) SW of Amukta Island, Alaska 85 km (52 miles) SW of Yunaska Island, Alaska 1658 km (1030 miles) WSW of Anchorage, Alaska 2410 km (1497 miles) W of WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory, Canada |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 14 km (8.7 miles); depth +/- 4.4 km (2.7 miles) |
| Parameters | NST=824, Nph=825, Dmin=172.5 km, Rmss=0.81 sec, Gp= 54°, M-type=centroid moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9 |
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| Event ID | usc0005n83 |
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