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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.1978S, -150.1214WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 225 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (140 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.84 km (19 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/01/18 / 2018-01-30 19:25:03 / January 30, 2018 @ 7:25 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000cylw. Event ids that are associated: ak18243671, us2000cylw. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.1214 West, latitude 56.1978 North, depth = 29.84 km. The temblor was detected at 09:25:03 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight hundred and fifteen, in the last 10 days two thousand, one hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 225 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 -150.1214° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1978° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 225km 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 2018-01-30 19:25:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-28 22:09:21 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 2.025 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us2000cylw Id of event.
Event Code 2000cylw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18243671,us2000cylw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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