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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.2063S, -169.304WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 41 km NW of Nikolski, Alaska (25 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -169.304° West, 53.2063° North, depth 106.91 km. Unique identifier: us100073wz. Ids that are associated to the event: ak14295097, us100073wz. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/11/16 / 2016-11-03 08:53:52 / November 3, 2016 @ 8:53 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 106.91 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:53:52 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 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: 41 km NW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.304° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.2063° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NW 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 2016-11-03 08:53:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-30 06:55:10 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 326 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 0.358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us100073wz Id of event.
Event Code 100073wz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak14295097,us100073wz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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