Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Kodiak Station in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 232 km S of Kodiak Station, Alaska (144 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -151.9256 West, latitude 55.7068 North, depth = 11.8 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18420766. Id of event: ak18420766. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.8 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:43:01 / 1:43 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/02/18 / 2018-02-10 11:43:01 / February 10, 2018 @ 11:43 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and four and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve 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 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 232 km S of Kodiak Station, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.9256° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.7068° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	232km S of Kodiak Station, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-02-10 11:43:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-20 01:54:03	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	168	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	0.66 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	ak18420766	Id of event.
Event Code	18420766	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak18420766,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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