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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.0291S, -149.9411WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 246 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (153 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.9411 West, latitude 56.0291 North, depth = 10 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:12:42 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000d53l. Event ids that are associated: ak18679375, us1000d53l. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/03/18 / 2018-03-11 16:12:42 / March 11, 2018 @ 4:12 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-six, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 246 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9411° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0291° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 246km 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 2018-03-11 16:12:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-21 13:29:28 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 138 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 2.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us1000d53l Id of event.
Event Code 1000d53l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18679375,us1000d53l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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