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Light earthquake 4 mag, 113 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9375S, -169.2251WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 113 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (70 miles). Event id: us200030m3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200030m3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.94 km (17 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 23:04:10 / July 27, 2015 @ 11:04 pm. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:04:10 / 12:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -169.2251 West, latitude 51.9375 North, depth = 26.94 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 113 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.2251° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-27 23:04:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-27 23:30:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 246 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 1.06 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200030m3 Id of event.
Event Code 200030m3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200030m3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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