Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Nikolski in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 51 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska (32 miles) on Wednesday. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:41:56 / 1:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.3195 West, latitude 52.5651 North, depth = 19.34 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.34 km (12 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak14274415, us100072vk. Unique identifier: us100072vk. Global time and date of event 26/10/16 / 2016-10-26 22:41:56 / October 26, 2016 @ 10:41 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-169.3195° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.5651° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km SW 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	2016-10-26 22:41:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-19 05:51:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	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	211	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	,ak,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	0.435	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	212	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	us100072vk	Id of event.
Event Code	100072vk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak14274415,us100072vk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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