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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.6828S, -168.1212WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 57 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska (35 miles). Exact location, longitude -168.1212° West, latitude 52.6828° North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020d04w10y, us6000c8cj. Id of event: us6000c8cj. The temblor was picked up at 06:38:29 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/10/20 / 2020-10-09 06:38:29 / October 9, 2020 @ 6:38 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska. This information 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 -168.1212° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.6828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 km ESE 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 2020-10-09 06:38:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-22 06:33:40 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 0.579 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 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 us6000c8cj Id of event.
Event Code 6000c8cj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020d04w10y,us6000c8cj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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