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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.3972S, -171.0886WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 162 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska (101 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -171.0886 West, latitude 52.3972 North, depth = 10.567 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.567 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 15/05/24 / 2024-05-15 17:15:49 / May 15, 2024 @ 5:15 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000n0ai. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n0ai. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:15:49 / 5:15 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 162 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.0886° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3972° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.567 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162 km WSW 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 2024-05-15 17:15:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-22 21:50:13 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 ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.92 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 197 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 us6000n0ai Id of event.
Event Code 6000n0ai An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n0ai, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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