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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Kodiak Station in Alaska


Earthquake location 57.5849S, -153.089WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Kodiak Station in Alaska. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/11/16 / 2016-11-02 14:46:02 / November 2, 2016 @ 2:46 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.8 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:46:02 / 6:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -153.089° West, 57.5849° North, depth 35.8 km. Event id: ak14293438. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak14293438.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kodiak. Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km SW of Kodiak Station, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.089° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.5849° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km SW 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 2016-11-02 14:46:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-03 04:29:53 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 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 0.5 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 ak14293438 Id of event.
Event Code 14293438 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak14293438, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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