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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on September 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 57.5849S, -152.3193WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Kodiak in Alaska on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -152.3193° West, 57.5849° North, depth 54.9 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 54.9 km (34 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/16 / 2016-09-04 06:48:23 / September 4, 2016 @ 6:48 am. Unique identifier: ak13902916. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13902916. The temblor was reported at 22:48:23 / 10:48 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 23 km (15 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kodiak (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km SSE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.3193° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.5849° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SSE of Kodiak, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-04 06:48:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-04 06:52:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 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 168 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.497316 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230.399981568 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 ak13902916 Id of event.
Event Code 13902916 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13902916, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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