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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on June 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.5818S, -148.6277WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 265 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (165 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/06/18 / 2018-06-01 15:37:55 / June 1, 2018 @ 3:37 pm. Id of earthquake: ak19696317. Event ids that are associated: ak19696317. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.6277 West, latitude 56.5818 North, depth = 12 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:37:55 / 5:37 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-one and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 265 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6277° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.5818° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 265km 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 2018-06-01 15:37:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-13 21:37:44 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 129 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 0.42 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 ak19696317 Id of event.
Event Code 19696317 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19696317, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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