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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.5115S, -148.674WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 267 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (166 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -148.674 West, latitude 56.5115 North, depth = 21.08 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.08 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/03/18 / 2018-03-08 00:07:54 / March 8, 2018 @ 12:07 am. The temblor was picked up at 14:07:54 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000d3ky. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18693060, us1000d3ky.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-five, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty, in the past 30 days eight hundred and eighty and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 267 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.674° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.5115° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 267km 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 2018-03-08 00:07:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-16 01:19:17 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 129 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 2.482 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 us1000d3ky Id of event.
Event Code 1000d3ky An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18693060,us1000d3ky, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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