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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 3 km NNE of Nikolski, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.9688S, -168.8439WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 3 km NNE of Nikolski, Alaska (2 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/10/16 / 2016-10-18 19:24:15 / October 18, 2016 @ 7:24 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -168.8439° West, 52.9688° North, depth 52.23 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007f5p. Id of event: us20007f5p. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.23 km (32 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:24:15 / 11:24 am (local time epicenter).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km NNE of Nikolski, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -168.8439° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9688° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NNE 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 2016-10-18 19:24:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-18 19:41:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 312 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 0.007 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us20007f5p Id of event.
Event Code 20007f5p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007f5p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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