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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.948S, -149.2202WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 282 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (175 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.6 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/03/18 / 2018-03-08 04:08:08 / March 8, 2018 @ 4:08 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:08:08 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.2202 West, latitude 55.948 North, depth = 13.6 km. Id of earthquake: ak18620294. Event ids that are associated: ak18620294. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ninety-six, in the past 30 days six hundred and fifty-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, four hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 282 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.2202° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 282km 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 2018-03-08 04:08:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-08 04:37:31 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 271 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 0.76 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 ak18620294 Id of event.
Event Code 18620294 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18620294, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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