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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.0279S, -149.7084WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 255 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (158 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cn1e. Id of event: us2000cn1e. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.7084 West, latitude 56.0279 North, depth = 13.04 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 11:37:44 / January 23, 2018 @ 11:37 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.04 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:37:44 / 1:37 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 255 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.7084° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0279° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 255km 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 11:37:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-23 12:07:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 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 385 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, 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 2.312 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us2000cn1e Id of event.
Event Code 2000cn1e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cn1e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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