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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0919S, -149.8763WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 243 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (151 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/18 / 2018-02-05 17:29:24 / February 5, 2018 @ 5:29 pm. The temblor was picked up at 07:29:24 / 7:29 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak18436613, us2000d28w. Unique identifier: us2000d28w. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -149.8763° West, 56.0919° North, depth 10 km.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fifty-four, in the last 10 days one thousand, one hundred and seventy-one, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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: 243 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.8763° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0919° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 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 2018-02-05 17:29:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-28 00:34:36 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 199 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 2.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 240 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 us2000d28w Id of event.
Event Code 2000d28w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18436613,us2000d28w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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