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Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.9027S, -149.9144WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 259 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (161 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.8 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak18513739, us2000db68. Unique identifier: us2000db68. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:23:23 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -149.9144° West, latitude 55.9027° North, depth = 9.8 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/02/18 / 2018-02-24 18:23:23 / February 24, 2018 @ 6:23 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and sixty-four, in the last 10 days six hundred and thirty-five, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and four and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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 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: 259 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9144° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9027° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 259km 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 2018-02-24 18:23:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-20 18:26:40 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 234 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 2.288 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us2000db68 Id of event.
Event Code 2000db68 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18513739,us2000db68, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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