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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.5177S, -148.7064WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 264 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (164 miles) on Monday. Exact location, longitude -148.7064° West, latitude 56.5177° North, depth = 21 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:25:52 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0195h219y0, us70003fxe. Id of event: us70003fxe. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 15:25:52 / April 29, 2019 @ 3:25 pm.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 264 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.7064° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.5177° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 264km 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 2019-04-29 15:25:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-08 21:09:25 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 129 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 2.464 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 261 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 us70003fxe Id of event.
Event Code 70003fxe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0195h219y0,us70003fxe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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