Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 279 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (173 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:11:36 / 9:11 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak0198d41mu3. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0198d41mu3. Global time and date of event 01/07/19 / 2019-07-01 07:11:36 / July 1, 2019 @ 7:11 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.2 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 11.2 km, -148.8954° West, 56.1688° North.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 279 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-148.8954° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.1688° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	279km 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	2019-07-01 07:11:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-22 00:31:31	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	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak0198d41mu3	Id of event.
Event Code	0198d41mu3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0198d41mu3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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