Strong earthquake 6.2 mag, 48 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska

A earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 48 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska (30 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikolski in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/12/20 / 2020-12-01 16:22:43 / December 1, 2020 @ 4:22 pm. Unique identifier: at00qko5hv. Ids that are associated to the event: at00qko5hv. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:22:43 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -168.194 West, latitude 52.777 North, depth = 37 km.

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 48 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-168.194° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.777° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48 km ESE 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	2020-12-01 16:22:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-01 16:31:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	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	592	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6557702	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	190.799984736	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00qko5hv	Id of event.
Event Code	00qko5hv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00qko5hv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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