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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.8035S, -149.2684WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 292 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (181 miles) on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 09/04/19 / 2019-04-09 20:00:59 / April 9, 2019 @ 8:00 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 10:00:59 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -149.2684° West, latitude 55.8035° North, depth = 7.01 km. Unique identifier: us600032hz. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0194k245ff, us600032hz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.01 km (4 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 292 km SE 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 -149.2684° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.8035° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 292km 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 2019-04-09 20:00:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-11 17:54:17 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 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 2.642 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us600032hz Id of event.
Event Code 600032hz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0194k245ff,us600032hz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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