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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 255 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.1187S, -149.528WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 255 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (158 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:33:12 / 11:33 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70003sxb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003sxb. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.44 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/05/19 / 2019-05-29 21:33:12 / May 29, 2019 @ 9:33 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -149.528° West, 56.1187° North, depth 22.44 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 255 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.528° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1187° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 255km 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 2019-05-29 21:33:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-29 21:43:47 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 222 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 2.351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us70003sxb Id of event.
Event Code 70003sxb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003sxb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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