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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.9472S, -149.2239WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 282 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (175 miles) on Sunday. Event id: ak0191w24uj3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0191w24uj3. The temblor was picked up at 05:28:53 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/02/19 / 2019-02-10 15:28:53 / February 10, 2019 @ 3:28 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -149.2239° West, 55.9472° North, depth 10 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 282 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.2239° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9472° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 282km 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 2019-02-10 15:28:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-01 01:38:38 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 148 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 0.63 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 ak0191w24uj3 Id of event.
Event Code 0191w24uj3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0191w24uj3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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