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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.241S, -148.418WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 297 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (185 miles). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:14:11 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: at00p8ehjn. Ids that are associated to the event: at00p8ehjn. Exact location, longitude -148.418° West, latitude 56.241° North, depth = 12 km. Global time and date of event 08/05/18 / 2018-05-08 08:14:11 / May 8, 2018 @ 8:14 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 297 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.418° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.241° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 297km 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 2018-05-08 08:14:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-08 08:23:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 1 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 465 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.749743 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161.99998704 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00p8ehjn Id of event.
Event Code 00p8ehjn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p8ehjn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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