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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.2895S, -148.5227WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 288 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (179 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:33:30 / 3:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 11.9 km, -148.5227° West, 56.2895° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/04/18 / 2018-04-10 01:33:30 / April 10, 2018 @ 1:33 am. Unique identifier: ak19234033. Ids that are associated to the event: ak19234033. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.9 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty and in the last 365 days three thousand and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 288 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.5227° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.2895° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 288km 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 2018-04-10 01:33:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-14 00:07:31 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 138 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 0.56 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 ak19234033 Id of event.
Event Code 19234033 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19234033, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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