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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0133S, -149.7809WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 254 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (158 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:23:14 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.16 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak19066463, us2000dw6j. Unique identifier: us2000dw6j. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/04/18 / 2018-04-07 16:23:14 / April 7, 2018 @ 4:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -149.7809° West, latitude 56.0133° North, depth = 8.16 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and thirty-one, in the last 10 days three hundred and thirty-three, in the past 30 days six hundred and seventy-five and in the last 365 days three thousand, three hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 254 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.7809° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0133° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 254km 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 2018-04-07 16:23:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-07 14:24:53 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 2.286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us2000dw6j Id of event.
Event Code 2000dw6j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19066463,us2000dw6j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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