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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.0256S, -169.2905WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 105 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (65 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 14:17:17 / 2:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.2905 West, latitude 52.0256 North, depth = 36.5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.5 km (23 miles). Global time and date of event 30/07/15 / 2015-07-30 01:17:17 / July 30, 2015 @ 1:17 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ak11664214. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11664214.

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 105 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.2905° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0256° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km 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 2015-07-30 01:17:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-11 17:02:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 148 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 0.6 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 ak11664214 Id of event.
Event Code 11664214 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11664214, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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