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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on April 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.6204S, -148.6914WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 259 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (161 miles) on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.6914 West, latitude 56.6204 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:36:57 / 3:36 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/03/18 / 2018-03-19 13:36:57 / March 19, 2018 @ 1:36 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000d9lf. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18711461, us1000d9lf.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 259 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6914° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.6204° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 259km 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 2018-03-19 13:36:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-01 19:08:08 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 148 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 2.417 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 212 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 us1000d9lf Id of event.
Event Code 1000d9lf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18711461,us1000d9lf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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