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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.7698S, -149.212WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 283 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (176 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cn20, ak18177529. Id of event: ak18177529. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 12:19:32 / January 23, 2018 @ 12:19 pm. Exact location, longitude -149.212° West, latitude 55.7698° North, depth = 6.9 km. 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 6.9 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:19:32 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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: 283 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.212° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.7698° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 283km 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 12:19:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-29 18:09:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 0.62 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 ak18177529 Id of event.
Event Code 18177529 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cn20,ak18177529, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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