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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 195 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.0368S, -171.3227WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 195 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska (121 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.267 km (37 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:52:44 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -171.3227° West, 52.0368° North, depth 59.267 km. Event id: us7000pb20. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pb20. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/01/25 / 2025-01-25 22:52:44 / January 25, 2025 @ 10:52 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 195 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.3227° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0368° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.267 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 195 km WSW 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 2025-01-25 22:52:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-15 01:11:00 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 ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us7000pb20 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pb20 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pb20, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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