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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 252 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.4084S, -149.0941WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 252 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (157 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -149.0941° West, 56.4084° North, depth 0 km. Event id: ak19237642. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19237642. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:20:20 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/04/18 / 2018-04-15 14:20:20 / April 15, 2018 @ 2:20 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days three thousand, one hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 252 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.0941° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.4084° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 252km 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 2018-04-15 14:20:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-15 14:29:09 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 automatic 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 284 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 0.88 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 ak19237642 Id of event.
Event Code 19237642 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19237642, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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