Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.1672S, -149.3069WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 261 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (162 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.92 km (12 miles). Event id: us2000d88k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18440586, us2000d88k. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.3069 West, latitude 56.1672 North, depth = 19.92 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/02/18 / 2018-02-17 10:38:59 / February 17, 2018 @ 10:38 am. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:38:59 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and twenty-nine, in the last 10 days seven hundred and seventy-five, in the past 30 days two thousand, six hundred and seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Did you feel it?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 261 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.3069° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1672° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 261km 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 2018-02-17 10:38:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-14 09:19:58 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 2.416 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 us2000d88k Id of event.
Event Code 2000d88k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18440586,us2000d88k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today