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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.467S, -148.7502WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 265 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (165 miles). Exact location, longitude -148.7502° West, latitude 56.467° North, depth = 20.5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/05/19 / 2019-05-29 16:22:51 / May 29, 2019 @ 4:22 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us60003tqh. Unique identifier: us60003tqh. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:22:51 / 6:22 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.5 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 265 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.7502° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.467° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 265km 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 2019-05-29 16:22:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-29 18:17:48 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 271 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 ,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 2.471 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60003tqh Id of event.
Event Code 60003tqh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003tqh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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