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Light earthquake 4 mag, 253 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 55.9002S, -150.0797WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 253 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (157 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:15:18 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -150.0797° West, 55.9002° North, depth 5.84 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 18:15:18 / January 24, 2018 @ 6:15 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cnuk. Id of event: us2000cnuk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.84 km (4 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 253 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0797° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 253km 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 2018-01-24 18:15:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-24 18:33:09 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 246 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 2.215 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us2000cnuk Id of event.
Event Code 2000cnuk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cnuk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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