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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.4228S, -148.4153WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 285 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (177 miles). Exact location of event, depth 22.32 km, -148.4153° West, 56.4228° North. Event id: us2000dddj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18517888, us2000dddj. The temblor was detected at 17:54:30 / 5:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.32 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 03:54:30 / February 25, 2018 @ 3:54 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-four, in the last 10 days three hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days one thousand, three hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 285 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.4153° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.4228° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 285km ESE 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 2018-02-25 03:54:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-09 01:48:43 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 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 2.651 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us2000dddj Id of event.
Event Code 2000dddj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18517888,us2000dddj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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