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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on April 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.562S, -148.6345WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 265 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (165 miles) on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us2000dvcn. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18794281, us2000dvcn. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/03/18 / 2018-03-27 22:11:53 / March 27, 2018 @ 10:11 pm. Exact location of event, depth 23.43 km, -148.6345° West, 56.562° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.43 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:11:53 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and sixteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days two thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 265 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6345° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.562° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 265km 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 2018-03-27 22:11:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-22 20:32:05 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 148 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 2.474 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 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 us2000dvcn Id of event.
Event Code 2000dvcn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18794281,us2000dvcn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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