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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 288 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska

Posted by admin on January 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.666S, -149.72WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 288 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (179 miles). Exact location, longitude -149.72° West, latitude 55.666° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00p34yg4. Id of event: at00p34yg4. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 23:55:16 / January 25, 2018 @ 11:55 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 13:55:16 / 1:55 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 288 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.72° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 288km 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 2018-01-25 23:55:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-25 23:59:10 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 1 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 354 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.518876 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197.99998416 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 at00p34yg4 Id of event.
Event Code 00p34yg4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p34yg4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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