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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Kodiak Station in Alaska


Earthquake location 57.8176S, -152.8498WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Kodiak Station in Alaska. The temblor was detected at 14:37:50 / 2:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -152.8498 West, latitude 57.8176 North, depth = 7.1 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.1 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ak13597139. Event ids that are associated: ak13597139. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/05/16 / 2016-05-20 22:37:50 / May 20, 2016 @ 10:37 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kodiak.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km WNW of Kodiak Station, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.8498° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.8176° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW of Kodiak Station, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-20 22:37:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-20 23:59:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 automatic 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak13597139 Id of event.
Event Code 13597139 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13597139, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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