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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.3593S, -148.4582WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 287 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (178 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:14:12 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -148.4582 West, latitude 56.3593 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000e0j1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00p8ehjn, us1000e0j1. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/18 / 2018-05-08 08:14:12 / May 8, 2018 @ 8:14 am.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 287 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.4582° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3593° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 287km 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 2018-05-08 08:14:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-08 08:35:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.18 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 466 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 ,at,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 2.666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000e0j1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000e0j1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p8ehjn,us1000e0j1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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