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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.6151S, -150.7059WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 263 km SSE of Kodiak, Alaska (163 miles) on Sunday. Unique identifier: us2000dw65. Ids that are associated to the event: ak19074748, us2000dw65. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:31:14 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/04/18 / 2018-04-01 19:31:14 / April 1, 2018 @ 7:31 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -150.7059° West, 55.6151° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-nine, in the last 10 days two hundred and nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days two thousand and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 263 km SSE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.7059° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.6151° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 263km SSE 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 2018-04-01 19:31:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-30 15:12:20 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 121 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 2.157 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230 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 us2000dw65 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dw65 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19074748,us2000dw65, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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