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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0943S, -149.4962WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 258 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (160 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.18 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/06/18 / 2018-06-22 21:02:00 / June 22, 2018 @ 9:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.4962 West, latitude 56.0943 North, depth = 23.18 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:02:00 / 11:02 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000ez1v. Event ids that are associated: ak19795200, us1000ez1v.

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

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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. 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: 258 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.4962° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0943° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 258km 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 2018-06-22 21:02:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-30 22:41:20 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 246 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 ,ak,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 2.379 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us1000ez1v Id of event.
Event Code 1000ez1v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19795200,us1000ez1v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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