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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0304S, -149.2281WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 271 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (168 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 15:09:30 / 3:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -149.2281° West, latitude 56.0304° North, depth = 19.1 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.1 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 01:09:30 / January 26, 2018 @ 1:09 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ak18196426. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18196426, us2000cpji.

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

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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. 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: 271 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.2281° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0304° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 271km 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 2018-01-26 01:09:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-26 01:36:20 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 2.65 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 ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 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 ak18196426 Id of event.
Event Code 18196426 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18196426,us2000cpji, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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