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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 38 km NE of Nikiski, Alaska

Posted by admin on May 9, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.8884S, -150.7039WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Nikiski in Alaska. Exact location of event, longitude -150.7039 West, latitude 60.8884 North, depth = 24.9 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.9 km (15 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:57:28 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ak0195xlljtc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0195xlljtc. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/05/19 / 2019-05-09 15:57:28 / May 9, 2019 @ 3:57 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eagle River, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Kalifornsky. Epicenter of the event was 57 km (35 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Elmendorf Air Force Base (c. 6 600 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 38 km NE of Nikiski, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.7039° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.8884° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NE of Nikiski, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-09 15:57:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-09 16:09:19 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 2.144 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 automatic 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 158 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 0.7 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 ak0195xlljtc Id of event.
Event Code 0195xlljtc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0195xlljtc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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