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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.3353S, -148.7625WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 274 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (170 miles). The temblor was picked up at 15:10:06 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.39 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -148.7625 West, latitude 56.3353 North, depth = 24.39 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18299928, us1000cewx. Id of event: us1000cewx. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 01:10:06 / January 24, 2018 @ 1:10 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight hundred and ninety-four, in the last 10 days eight hundred and ninety-four, in the past 30 days eight hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days eight hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 274 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.7625° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3353° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 274km 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 2018-01-24 01:10:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-06 03:39:18 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 211 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 ,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 2.542 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us1000cewx Id of event.
Event Code 1000cewx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18299928,us1000cewx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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