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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 290 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.1764S, -148.659WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 290 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (180 miles) on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/11/19 / 2019-11-07 07:09:00 / November 7, 2019 @ 7:09 am. Id of earthquake: us700069g1. Event ids that are associated: ak019eagcyd7, us700069g1. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.1 km (13 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:09:00 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -148.659° West, 56.1764° North, depth 21.1 km.

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

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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: 290 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.659° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1764° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 290km 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 2019-11-07 07:09:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-20 07:21:00 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 178 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 2.684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 us700069g1 Id of event.
Event Code 700069g1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019eagcyd7,us700069g1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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