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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on April 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.053S, -150.0217WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 241 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (150 miles). Event id: us1000d4j7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18696749, us1000d4j7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/03/18 / 2018-03-10 16:00:20 / March 10, 2018 @ 4:00 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -150.0217° West, 56.053° North, depth 21.24 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.24 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:00:20 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and three, in the last 10 days five hundred and four, in the past 30 days one thousand, one hundred and sixty-seven and in the last 365 days three thousand and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 241 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0217° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.053° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 241km 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 2018-03-10 16:00:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-09 13:34:01 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 129 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 2.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 228 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 us1000d4j7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d4j7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18696749,us1000d4j7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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