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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8885S, -170.435WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 158 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska (98 miles) on Saturday. Unique identifier: us6000neww. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000neww. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.515 km (24 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/07/24 / 2024-07-13 02:57:47 / July 13, 2024 @ 2:57 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:57:47 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -170.435° West, 51.8885° North, depth 38.515 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 158 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.435° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.515 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 158 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 2024-07-13 02:57:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-24 00:36:55 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 246 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.454 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 184 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 us6000neww Id of event.
Event Code 6000neww An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000neww, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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