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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 70 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.3857S, -169.3639WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 70 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (43 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 11.65 km (7 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/04/17 / 2017-04-02 23:18:11 / April 2, 2017 @ 11:18 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak15661948, us10008eqk. Id of event: us10008eqk. The temblor was reported at 12:18:11 / 12:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 11.65 km, -169.3639° West, 52.3857° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.3639° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3857° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 2017-04-02 23:18:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-08 05:25:06 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 178 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 0.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 us10008eqk Id of event.
Event Code 10008eqk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15661948,us10008eqk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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