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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.8502S, -171.1992WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 157 km W of Nikolski, Alaska (98 miles) on Friday. Exact location, longitude -171.1992° West, latitude 52.8502° North, depth = 218.89 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 218.89 km (136 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:20:59 / 11:20 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000c2pv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020c1omb7r, us6000c2pv. Global time and date of event 18/09/20 / 2020-09-18 23:20:59 / September 18, 2020 @ 11:20 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 157 km W of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.1992° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8502° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 218.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157 km W 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 2020-09-18 23:20:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-01 21:04:07 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 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 0.791 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us6000c2pv Id of event.
Event Code 6000c2pv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020c1omb7r,us6000c2pv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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