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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9797S, -169.3393WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 111 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (69 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 07:06:25 / May 2, 2024 @ 7:06 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikolski in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000mvmm. Ids that are associated to the event: at00scujr0, us6000mvmm, ak0245njb2qq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.901 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:06:25 / 7:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -169.3393 West, latitude 51.9797 North, depth = 12.901 km.

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

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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: 111 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.3393° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9797° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.901 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111 km 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 2024-05-02 07:06:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-15 04:59:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.102 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 104 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.842 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mvmm Id of event.
Event Code 6000mvmm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00scujr0,us6000mvmm,ak0245njb2qq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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