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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.1302S, -149.332WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 262 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (163 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.332 West, latitude 56.1302 North, depth = 21.96 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak18655293, us1000d2l7. Unique identifier: us1000d2l7. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/03/18 / 2018-03-03 02:47:25 / March 3, 2018 @ 2:47 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 16:47:25 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.96 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and sixty-three, in the past 30 days one thousand, one hundred and eighty-nine and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 262 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.332° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1302° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 262km 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 2018-03-03 02:47:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-16 02:26:19 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 121 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 2.432 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 228 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 us1000d2l7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d2l7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18655293,us1000d2l7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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