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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Nikolski in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.6132S, -169.7517WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 70 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska (43 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.299 km (16 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/06/24 / 2024-06-11 13:01:19 / June 11, 2024 @ 1:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.7517 West, latitude 52.6132 North, depth = 25.299 km. Event id: us7000mrpk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mrpk, ak0247hscgch. The temblor was reported at 13:01:19 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 70 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.7517° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.6132° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.299 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 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 2024-06-11 13:01:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-11 15:15:36 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 2.058 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 246 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us7000mrpk Id of event.
Event Code 7000mrpk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mrpk,ak0247hscgch, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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