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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.9828S, -150.146WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 243 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (151 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.47 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000cpuq. Event ids that are associated: ak18200577, at00p36926, us2000cpuq. Global time and date of event 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 16:42:04 / January 26, 2018 @ 4:42 pm UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:42:04 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9.47 km, -150.146° West, 55.9828° North. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one thousand, one hundred and thirty-nine, in the last 10 days one thousand, nine hundred and sixteen, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 243 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.146° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 243km 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 2018-01-26 16:42:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-24 20:05:29 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 1 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 385 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,at,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 2.135 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cpuq Id of event.
Event Code 2000cpuq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18200577,at00p36926,us2000cpuq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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