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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 248 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.3163S, -149.3206WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 248 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (154 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/02/18 / 2018-02-03 17:26:32 / February 3, 2018 @ 5:26 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cfe4. Id of event: us1000cfe4. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.79 km (12 miles). Exact location of event, depth 19.79 km, -149.3206° West, 56.3163° North. The temblor was reported at 07:26:32 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days three hundred and fifty-one, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days eight hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 248 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.3206° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3163° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 248km 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 2018-02-03 17:26:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-03 21:36:52 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 234 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 2.31 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us1000cfe4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000cfe4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cfe4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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