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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0754S, -150.2377WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 232 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (144 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.2377 West, latitude 56.0754 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/01/18 / 2018-01-29 16:57:47 / January 29, 2018 @ 4:57 pm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:57:47 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak18231013, us2000cqz3. Unique identifier: us2000cqz3.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 232 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.2377° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0754° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 232km 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 16:57:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-13 17:31:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 189 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 2.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 us2000cqz3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cqz3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18231013,us2000cqz3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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