Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Nikolski in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 66 km SSE of Nikolski, Alaska (41 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -168.6164 West, latitude 52.3588 North, depth = 65.36 km. The temblor was reported at 08:03:59 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 65.36 km (41 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/16 / 2016-05-17 19:03:59 / May 17, 2016 @ 7:03 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13590389, us10005jh8. Id of event: us10005jh8.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-two 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. 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: 66 km SSE of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-168.6164° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.3588° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km SSE 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	2016-05-17 19:03:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-12 16:02:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	,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	0.631	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	206	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	us10005jh8	Id of event.
Event Code	10005jh8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13590389,us10005jh8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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