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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.3739S, -148.6878WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 275 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (171 miles). Id of earthquake: ak19298438. Event ids that are associated: ak19298438. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:23:12 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/05/18 / 2018-05-01 18:23:12 / May 1, 2018 @ 6:23 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -148.6878° West, 56.3739° North, depth 18 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6878° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3739° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 275km 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 2018-05-01 18:23:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-01 18:37:32 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 ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak19298438 Id of event.
Event Code 19298438 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19298438, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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