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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.6836S, -148.5646WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 262 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (163 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 20.59 km, -148.5646° West, 56.6836° North. The temblor was picked up at 19:02:13 / 7:02 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/11/18 / 2018-11-16 05:02:13 / November 16, 2018 @ 5:02 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000hx5i. Event ids that are associated: ak20410702, us1000hx5i. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.59 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days ninety-five and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 262 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.5646° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.6836° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 262km 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 2018-11-16 05:02:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-14 13:36:26 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 121 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 2.447 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 us1000hx5i Id of event.
Event Code 1000hx5i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20410702,us1000hx5i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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