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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.1175S, -169.3461WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 97 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (60 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.3461 West, latitude 52.1175 North, depth = 38.585 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 09:20:03 / May 2, 2024 @ 9:20 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000mxl8. Event ids that are associated: ak0245nkkw4m, us6000mxl8. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:20:03 / 9:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.585 km (24 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 97 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.3461° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.1175° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.585 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 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 09:20:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-28 05:35:00 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 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 158 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.709 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us6000mxl8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mxl8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0245nkkw4m,us6000mxl8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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