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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 224 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.6906S, -149.2881WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 224 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (139 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:01:58 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/02/18 / 2018-02-19 06:01:58 / February 19, 2018 @ 6:01 am. Exact location of earthquake, -149.2881° West, 56.6906° North, depth 0.1 km. Event id: ak18453869. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18453869. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.1 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days one thousand, six hundred and eighty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, six hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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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. 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: 224 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.2881° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.6906° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 224km 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 2018-02-19 06:01:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-19 06:13:45 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 automatic 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 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 0.84 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 ak18453869 Id of event.
Event Code 18453869 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18453869, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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