Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Nikolski in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 54 km NE of Nikolski, Alaska (34 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -168.2073° West, 53.2292° North, depth 78.881 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nmw0. Id of event: us6000nmw0. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/08/24 / 2024-08-06 20:53:35 / August 6, 2024 @ 8:53 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 20:53:35 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78.881 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. 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: 54 km NE of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-168.2073° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.2292° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78.881 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 km NE 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	2024-08-06 20:53:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-26 19:47:31	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	211	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.254	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us6000nmw0	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nmw0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nmw0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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