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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 253 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska

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Earthquake location 56.3917S, -149.1163WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 253 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (157 miles). Id of earthquake: ak18873611. Event ids that are associated: ak18873611. The temblor was picked up at 15:40:56 / 3:40 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/04/18 / 2018-04-01 01:40:56 / April 1, 2018 @ 1:40 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -149.1163° West, 56.3917° North, depth 0 km.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, nine hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 253 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.1163° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3917° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 253km 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 2018-04-01 01:40:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-01 01:54:27 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 automatic 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 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak18873611 Id of event.
Event Code 18873611 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18873611, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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