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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.3045S, -148.6106WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 283 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (176 miles). Id of earthquake: us70003vjn. Event ids that are associated: ak0196izprqq, us70003vjn. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.94 km (14 miles). Global time and date of event 22/05/19 / 2019-05-22 09:07:42 / May 22, 2019 @ 9:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.6106 West, latitude 56.3045 North, depth = 21.94 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:07:42 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 283 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6106° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3045° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 283km 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 2019-05-22 09:07:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-20 10:06:30 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 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 2.628 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 216 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 us70003vjn Id of event.
Event Code 70003vjn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0196izprqq,us70003vjn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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