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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 68 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.338S, -169.0666WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 68 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (42 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.0666 West, latitude 52.338 North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 09:30:03 / August 5, 2015 @ 9:30 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 22:30:03 / 10:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10002y21. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002y21. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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: 68 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.0666° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km 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 2015-08-05 09:30:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-05 10:05:54 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 259 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 0.648 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us10002y21 Id of event.
Event Code 10002y21 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002y21, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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