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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.489S, -169.2509WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 56 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (35 miles) on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 01:44:52 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak11658188, us10002wq5. Unique identifier: us10002wq5. Exact location of earthquake, -169.2509° West, 52.489° North, depth 37.38 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 12:44:52 / July 27, 2015 @ 12:44 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.38 km (23 miles).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 56 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.2509° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.489° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km 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 2015-07-27 12:44:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-16 06:35:24 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 168 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 ,ak,us, 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 0.414 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 us10002wq5 Id of event.
Event Code 10002wq5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11658188,us10002wq5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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