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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.9871S, -150.0284WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 247 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (153 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:12:29 / 1:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.86 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak19234741, us2000e04x. Unique identifier: us2000e04x. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/04/18 / 2018-04-09 11:12:29 / April 9, 2018 @ 11:12 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -150.0284 West, latitude 55.9871 North, depth = 6.86 km.

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

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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. 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: 247 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0284° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9871° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 247km 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 2018-04-09 11:12:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-20 05:43:59 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 2.186 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 us2000e04x Id of event.
Event Code 2000e04x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19234741,us2000e04x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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