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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.3746S, -149.0114WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 259 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (161 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 28/11/18 / 2018-11-28 10:58:31 / November 28, 2018 @ 10:58 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:58:31 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 23.99 km, -149.0114° West, 56.3746° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000hxdt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20412178, us1000hxdt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.99 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 259 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.0114° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3746° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.99 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 2018-11-28 10:58:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-28 11:19:29 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 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 2.407 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hxdt Id of event.
Event Code 1000hxdt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20412178,us1000hxdt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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