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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.9443S, -170.52WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 249 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (155 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -170.52 West, latitude 50.9443 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ah83. Id of event: us7000ah83. The temblor was picked up at 09:55:35 / 9:55 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/07/20 / 2020-07-03 09:55:35 / July 3, 2020 @ 9:55 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 249 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.52° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.9443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 249 km 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 2020-07-03 09:55:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-03 10:13:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 234 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 ,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 2.617 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 229 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 us7000ah83 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ah83 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ah83, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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