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Light earthquake 4 mag, 273 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.4759S, -148.5964WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 273 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (170 miles). Exact location, longitude -148.5964° West, latitude 56.4759° North, depth = 22.32 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:44:14 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/03/18 / 2018-03-27 22:44:14 / March 27, 2018 @ 10:44 pm. Event id: us2000dxn5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19213679, us2000dxn5. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.32 km (14 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and fourty-nine, in the last 10 days three hundred and fifty-eight, in the past 30 days seven hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days three thousand and eighty-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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 273 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.5964° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.4759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 273km 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 22:44:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-25 01:40:39 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 246 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 2.538 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us2000dxn5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dxn5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19213679,us2000dxn5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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