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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Nikolski in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.131S, -169.3884WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 96 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (60 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -169.3884 West, latitude 52.131 North, depth = 59.9 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:52:38 / 5:52 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.9 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 16:52:38 / July 29, 2015 @ 4:52 pm. Unique identifier: us10002xrg. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11663120, us10002xrg.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 96 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.3884° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.131° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km 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 16:52:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-19 03:30:49 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 211 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002xrg Id of event.
Event Code 10002xrg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11663120,us10002xrg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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