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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.9198S, -149.2551WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 283 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (176 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0191dqf8tl. Unique identifier: ak0191dqf8tl. Exact location of event, depth 0 km, -149.2551° West, 55.9198° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:22:12 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 07:22:12 / January 30, 2019 @ 7:22 am.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 283 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.2551° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9198° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 283km 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 2019-01-30 07:22:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-30 07:26:41 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 automatic 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 168 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 0.87 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 ak0191dqf8tl Id of event.
Event Code 0191dqf8tl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0191dqf8tl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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