Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Nikiski in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Nikiski in Alaska on Saturday. Id of earthquake: ak11667418. Event ids that are associated: ak11667418. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/15 / 2015-08-02 03:53:50 / August 2, 2015 @ 3:53 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 65.9 km (41 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:53:50 / 7:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 65.9 km, -151.4384° West, 61.0774° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalifornsky, Sterling, Kenai. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 43 km N of Nikiski, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.4384° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.0774° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km N of Nikiski, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-02 03:53:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-03 17:30:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	automatic	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	129	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	76	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3530379	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35.99999712	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	ak11667418	Id of event.
Event Code	11667418	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11667418,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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