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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9735S, -169.3423WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 112 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (70 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -169.3423° West, 51.9735° North, depth 15.9 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.9 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak11663741. Unique identifier: ak11663741. The temblor was picked up at 10:08:28 / 10:08 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 21:08:28 / July 29, 2015 @ 9:08 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 112 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.3423° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km SSW 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 2015-07-29 21:08:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-04 00:58:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 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 188 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 31 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 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208.799983296 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 ak11663741 Id of event.
Event Code 11663741 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11663741, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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