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


Earthquake location 56.466S, -148.6523WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 270 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (168 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -148.6523 West, latitude 56.466 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:32:33 / 4:32 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000cyll. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18241099, us2000cyll. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/18 / 2018-01-30 14:32:33 / January 30, 2018 @ 2:32 pm.

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

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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: 270 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6523° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.466° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 270km ESE 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 2018-01-30 14:32:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-13 21:07:22 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 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 2.517 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 us2000cyll Id of event.
Event Code 2000cyll An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18241099,us2000cyll, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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