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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 186 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.9645S, -149.6883WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 186 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (116 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/08/19 / 2019-08-09 08:52:05 / August 9, 2019 @ 8:52 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.9 km (12 miles). Event id: ak019a5mub9n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019a5mub9n, us600052pw. Exact location of event, longitude -149.6883 West, latitude 56.9645 North, depth = 19.9 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:52:05 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter).

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 eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 186 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.6883° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.9645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 186km 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 2019-08-09 08:52:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-28 19:04:51 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 158 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,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 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 ak019a5mub9n Id of event.
Event Code 019a5mub9n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019a5mub9n,us600052pw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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