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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9896S, -169.2032WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 107 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (66 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.76 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, depth 6.76 km, -169.2032° West, 51.9896° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/08/15 / 2015-08-28 00:11:03 / August 28, 2015 @ 12:11 am. Id of earthquake: us100035ku. Event ids that are associated: us100035ku. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:11:03 / 1:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 107 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.2032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9896° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107km 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 2015-08-28 00:11:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-28 00:25:17 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 1.007 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 us100035ku Id of event.
Event Code 100035ku An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100035ku, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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