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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 3, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.906S, -149.9532WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 257 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (160 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.9532 West, latitude 55.906 North, depth = 7.15 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.15 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19096153, us2000dzzq. Id of event: us2000dzzq. Global time and date of event 08/04/18 / 2018-04-08 06:28:48 / April 8, 2018 @ 6:28 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 20:28:48 / 8:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and eighty, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety-seven, in the past 30 days six hundred and seven and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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. 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: 257 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9532° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.906° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 257km 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 2018-04-08 06:28:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-03 06:46:30 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 138 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 2.268 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 208 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 us2000dzzq Id of event.
Event Code 2000dzzq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19096153,us2000dzzq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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