Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Nikolaevsk in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Nikolaevsk in Alaska. Exact location of event, longitude -151.4982 West, latitude 59.9182 North, depth = 41.5 km. Global time and date of event 30/12/24 / 2024-12-30 07:01:30 / December 30, 2024 @ 7:01 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:01:30 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.5 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ak024grrbzih. Ids that are associated to the event: ak024grrbzih.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sterling, Kenai, Kalifornsky (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km NNE of Nikolaevsk, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.4982° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.9182° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km NNE of Nikolaevsk, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-30 07:01:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-30 07:05:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	automatic	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	178	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak024grrbzih	Id of event.
Event Code	024grrbzih	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak024grrbzih,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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