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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Nikolski in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 15, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.0084S, -169.3454WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 108 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (67 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/07/20 / 2020-07-29 22:00:53 / July 29, 2020 @ 10:00 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -169.3454 West, latitude 52.0084 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000b98m. Event ids that are associated: ak0209pbhvzi, us6000b98m. The temblor was reported at 22:00:53 / 10:00 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 108 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.3454° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0084° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108 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 2020-07-29 22:00:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-15 04:54:21 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 199 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 0.813 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us6000b98m Id of event.
Event Code 6000b98m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0209pbhvzi,us6000b98m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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