Quakedle
Puzzle #107 was southeast of Easter Island.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
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How it scored
- Magnitude
- M6.4 — strong class
- Magnitude type
- mww - W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 10.0 km — shallow
- Region
- Other oceanic or intraplate region
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- No DYFI count reported
- PAGER alert
- green PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Local plate or crustal fault system
- Tectonic context
- The USGS place label does not resolve to this quiz’s broad authored regions. Earthquakes may occur at plate boundaries or on faults within plates.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M6.4. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Strong (M6.0–6.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 10.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “southeast of Easter Island”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Other oceanic or intraplate region
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- No — at least one supplied week event has a higher magnitude.