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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.2024S, -169.4308WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 90 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (56 miles). Unique identifier: ak11689137. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11689137. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.8 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 31/08/15 / 2015-08-31 23:35:15 / August 31, 2015 @ 11:35 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.4308 West, latitude 52.2024 North, depth = 20.8 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:35:15 / 12:35 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 90 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.4308° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2024° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km 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 2015-08-31 23:35:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-01 01:24:08 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 138 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 18 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 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.599982432 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 ak11689137 Id of event.
Event Code 11689137 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11689137, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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