Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 273 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 273 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (170 miles) on Thursday. Event id: us1000d7a5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18723737, us1000d7a5. Exact location of earthquake, -148.6738° West, 56.4077° North, depth 20.41 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.41 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/03/18 / 2018-03-15 15:58:34 / March 15, 2018 @ 3:58 pm. The temblor was detected at 05:58:34 / 5:58 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and sixty-nine, in the last 10 days four hundred and eighty, in the past 30 days one thousand and fourty and in the last 365 days three thousand and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-148.6738° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.4077° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	273km 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	2018-03-15 15:58:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-13 21:26:12	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	121	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	2.54	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	203	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	us1000d7a5	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d7a5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak18723737,us1000d7a5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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