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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Nikiski in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.6475S, -151.1576WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Nikiski in Alaska. Exact location of event, longitude -151.1576 West, latitude 60.6475 North, depth = 53.2 km. Event id: ak11656380. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11656380. Global time and date of event 26/07/15 / 2015-07-26 00:54:56 / July 26, 2015 @ 12:54 am UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:54:56 / 4:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.2 km (33 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalifornsky, Sterling, Kenai. The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km ESE of Nikiski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.1576° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.6475° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ESE of Nikiski, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-26 00:54:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 01:17:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 129 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 0.75 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 ak11656380 Id of event.
Event Code 11656380 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11656380, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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