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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.873S, -150.1422WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 254 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (158 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18229550. Id of event: ak18229550. Exact location, longitude -150.1422° West, latitude 55.873° North, depth = 11.3 km. The temblor was detected at 03:28:12 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/01/18 / 2018-01-29 13:28:12 / January 29, 2018 @ 1:28 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.3 km (7 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-six, in the last 10 days eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-nine and in the last 365 days eight hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 254 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.1422° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.873° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 254km 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 2018-01-29 13:28:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-07 01:12:46 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 188 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, 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 0.97 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 ak18229550 Id of event.
Event Code 18229550 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18229550, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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