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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8513S, -169.3782WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 125 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (78 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:40:55 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -169.3782° West, 51.8513° North, depth 25.4 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.4 km (16 miles). Event id: ak11667798. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11667798. Global time and date of event 02/08/15 / 2015-08-02 19:40:55 / August 2, 2015 @ 7:40 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 125 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.3782° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8513° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125km 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 2015-08-02 19:40:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-10 21:00:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 199 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 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 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak11667798 Id of event.
Event Code 11667798 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11667798, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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