Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 248 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 248 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (154 miles). Unique identifier: at00p6sord. Ids that are associated to the event: at00p6sord. The temblor was detected at 17:09:13 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 27 km, -149.788° West, 56.08° North. Global time and date of event 07/04/18 / 2018-04-07 03:09:13 / April 7, 2018 @ 3:09 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 27 km (17 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days three hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three thousand and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 248 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.788° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.08° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	248km 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	2018-04-07 03:09:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-07 03:13:08	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	1	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	416	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.243992	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	197.99998416	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00p6sord	Id of event.
Event Code	00p6sord	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00p6sord,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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