Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Nikolski in Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 176 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska (109 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 39 km, -170.847° West, 51.921° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/10/24 / 2024-10-09 04:41:08 / October 9, 2024 @ 4:41 am. Event id: at00sl2nok. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00sl2nok. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:41:08 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikolski in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39 km (24 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 176 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-170.847° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.921° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	176 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	2024-10-09 04:41:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-09 04:44:50	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	1	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	385	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.608883	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	212.399983008	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	at00sl2nok	Id of event.
Event Code	00sl2nok	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00sl2nok,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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