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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 201 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9078S, -171.288WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 201 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska (125 miles). Global time and date of event 30/05/24 / 2024-05-30 02:10:35 / May 30, 2024 @ 2:10 am UTC/GMT. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:10:35 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000mqn1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0246xrehhh, us7000mqn1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -171.288° West, 51.9078° North.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 201 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.288° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9078° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 201 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 02:10:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-07 04:16:38 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 199 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.218 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 us7000mqn1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mqn1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0246xrehhh,us7000mqn1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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