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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.557S, -149.1019WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 242 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (150 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/03/18 / 2018-03-07 21:30:37 / March 7, 2018 @ 9:30 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.71 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:30:37 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000d417. Event ids that are associated: ak18694457, us1000d417. Exact location of event, depth 20.71 km, -149.1019° West, 56.557° North.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and seventeen, in the last 10 days three hundred and four, in the past 30 days nine hundred and eighty and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-seven 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 242 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.1019° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 242km 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 2018-03-07 21:30:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-18 16:42:27 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 2.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 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 us1000d417 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d417 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18694457,us1000d417, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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