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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.5437S, -169.2016WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 49 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (30 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.46 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/17 / 2017-08-09 05:48:29 / August 9, 2017 @ 5:48 am. Exact location, longitude -169.2016° West, latitude 52.5437° North, depth = 41.46 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikolski in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 18:48:29 / 6:48 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ouelgt, us2000a690. Id of event: us2000a690.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 49 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.2016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.5437° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km 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 2017-08-09 05:48:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-09 06:02:43 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 1 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 432 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 ,at,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 0.506 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us2000a690 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a690 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ouelgt,us2000a690, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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