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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 259 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 55.8895S, -149.951WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 259 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (161 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19546375. Id of event: ak19546375. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:31:36 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.951 West, latitude 55.8895 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/05/18 / 2018-05-15 10:31:36 / May 15, 2018 @ 10:31 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 259 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.951° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.8895° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 259km 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 2018-05-15 10:31:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-15 10:57:40 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 271 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 0.84 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 ak19546375 Id of event.
Event Code 19546375 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19546375, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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