Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Nikolski in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 92 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (57 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 07:01:18 / July 27, 2015 @ 7:01 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.2925 West, latitude 52.1477 North, depth = 37.8 km. Event id: ak11657725. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11657725. The temblor was detected at 20:01:18 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.8 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-one, in the last 10 days ninety-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 92 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-169.2925° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.1477° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	92km 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 07:01:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-31 01:44:53	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	188	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	223.199982144	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ak11657725	Id of event.
Event Code	11657725	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11657725,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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