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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.4066S, -148.6104WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 276 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (171 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -148.6104° West, 56.4066° North, depth 12.3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.3 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:41:05 / 5:41 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/03/19 / 2019-03-01 03:41:05 / March 1, 2019 @ 3:41 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ak0192ra9wyr. Unique identifier: ak0192ra9wyr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 276 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6104° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.4066° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 276km 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 2019-03-01 03:41:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-01 03:59:02 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 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 1.09 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 ak0192ra9wyr Id of event.
Event Code 0192ra9wyr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0192ra9wyr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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