Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 292 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (181 miles) on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/18 / 2018-05-12 03:29:57 / May 12, 2018 @ 3:29 am. Event id: ak19452813. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19452813. The temblor was detected at 17:29:57 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.4178 West, latitude 56.3217 North, depth = 11.9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.9 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days sixty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 292 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-148.4178° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.3217° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	292km 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	2018-05-12 03:29:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-15 23:35:21	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	168	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	0.62 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	ak19452813	Id of event.
Event Code	19452813	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak19452813,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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