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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.243S, -169.3779WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 84 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (52 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nxdckl. Id of event: at00nxdckl. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/11/15 / 2015-11-06 01:09:57 / November 6, 2015 @ 1:09 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikolski in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:09:57 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.3779 West, latitude 52.243 North, depth = 10 km.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 84 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.3779° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.243° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2015-11-06 01:09:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-06 01:13:52 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 1 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 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.79770397 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208.8 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 at00nxdckl Id of event.
Event Code 00nxdckl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nxdckl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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