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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.8751S, -149.9777WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 259 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (161 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/04/18 / 2018-04-10 09:51:57 / April 10, 2018 @ 9:51 am. Exact location of event, longitude -149.9777 West, latitude 55.8751 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:51:57 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19195915, us2000dxf3. Id of event: us2000dxf3. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and nine, in the past 30 days three hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days three thousand and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 259 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9777° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.8751° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 259km 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 2018-04-10 09:51:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-16 14:10:36 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 222 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 2.276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 us2000dxf3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dxf3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19195915,us2000dxf3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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