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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Kodiak Station in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 22, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 57.6925S, -153.1937WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Kodiak Station in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -153.1937 West, latitude 57.6925 North, depth = 249.7 km. The temblor was reported at 15:57:45 / 3:57 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak019gcrnzwn. Ids that are associated to the event: ak019gcrnzwn. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/12/19 / 2019-12-22 00:57:45 / December 22, 2019 @ 12:57 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 249.7 km (155 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kodiak (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 36 km WSW of Kodiak Station, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.1937° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.6925° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 249.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km WSW of Kodiak Station, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-22 00:57:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-22 01:02:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 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 0.92 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 ak019gcrnzwn Id of event.
Event Code 019gcrnzwn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019gcrnzwn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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