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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.3329S, -149.5767WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 236 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (147 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 16.16 km (10 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:00:01 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hhug. Ids that are associated to the event: at00ph8g42, ak20291719, us1000hhug. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 01:00:01 / October 27, 2018 @ 1:00 am. Exact location, longitude -149.5767° West, latitude 56.3329° North, depth = 16.16 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days four thousand and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 236 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.5767° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 236km 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 2018-10-27 01:00:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-27 01:18:45 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 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 369 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,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 2.193 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us1000hhug Id of event.
Event Code 1000hhug An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ph8g42,ak20291719,us1000hhug, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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