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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 31, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.4754S, -149.1088WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 247 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (153 miles). Global time and date of event 31/01/18 / 2018-01-31 20:01:45 / January 31, 2018 @ 8:01 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles). Id of earthquake: ak18261217. Event ids that are associated: at00p3frn0, ak18261217. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:01:45 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -149.1088° West, 56.4754° North, depth 0.1 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days four hundred and thirty-eight, in the past 30 days four hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-two 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 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: 247 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.1088° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.4754° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 247km 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 2018-01-31 20:01:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-31 20:12:50 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 automatic 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 416 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 ,at,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 0.87 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 ak18261217 Id of event.
Event Code 18261217 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p3frn0,ak18261217, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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