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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.7427S, -148.7102WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 251 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (156 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019f0syxrf. Id of event: ak019f0syxrf. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:39:45 / 2:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 18.9 km, -148.7102° West, 56.7427° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/11/19 / 2019-11-23 00:39:45 / November 23, 2019 @ 12:39 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.9 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 251 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.7102° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.7427° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 251km 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 2019-11-23 00:39:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-23 00:49:17 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 automatic 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 199 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 0.72 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 ak019f0syxrf Id of event.
Event Code 019f0syxrf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019f0syxrf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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