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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8319S, -171.2257WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 202 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska (126 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/05/24 / 2024-05-30 02:11:19 / May 30, 2024 @ 2:11 am. Exact location of earthquake, -171.2257° West, 51.8319° North, depth 35 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:11:19 / 2:11 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000mqns. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mqns. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 202 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.2257° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 202 km SW 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 2024-05-30 02:11:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-07 04:30:44 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 188 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 ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.848 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 220 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 us7000mqns Id of event.
Event Code 7000mqns An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mqns, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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