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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 259 km SSE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 55.7363S, -150.3888WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 259 km SSE of Kodiak, Alaska (161 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:16:39 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.3888 West, latitude 55.7363 North, depth = 5.18 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 03:16:39 / July 7, 2019 @ 3:16 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.18 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70004di0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0198myx351, us70004di0.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 259 km SSE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.3888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.7363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 259km SSE 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 2019-07-07 03:16:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 04:04:02 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 2.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 228 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 us70004di0 Id of event.
Event Code 70004di0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0198myx351,us70004di0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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