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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 73 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.3614S, -169.3865WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 73 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (45 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 35.18 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000317m. Unique identifier: us2000317m. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 07:41:07 / July 29, 2015 @ 7:41 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:41:07 / 8:41 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 -169.3865 West, latitude 52.3614 North, depth = 35.18 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.3865° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3614° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km 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 2015-07-29 07:41:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-29 07:52:43 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 340 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 0.692 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us2000317m Id of event.
Event Code 2000317m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000317m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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