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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.4831S, -149.1798WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 240 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (149 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 11:46:57 / January 23, 2018 @ 11:46 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.1798 West, latitude 56.4831 North, depth = 2.2 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: ak18177431. Event ids that are associated: us2000cn1j, ak18177431. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.2 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 01:46:57 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 240 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.1798° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.4831° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 240km SE 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 2018-01-23 11:46:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-23 13:47:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 432 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 ,us,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 0.79 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 ak18177431 Id of event.
Event Code 18177431 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cn1j,ak18177431, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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