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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.5519S, -151.386WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 256 km SSE of Kodiak, Alaska (159 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/20 / 2020-01-02 08:54:32 / January 2, 2020 @ 8:54 am. The temblor was reported at 22:54:32 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q3h22x, us70006tgh. Id of event: us70006tgh. Exact location of event, depth 7.92 km, -151.386° West, 55.5519° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.92 km (5 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kodiak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 256 km SSE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.386° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.5519° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 256km SSE 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 2020-01-02 08:54:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-02 09:05:39 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 1 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 354 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 ,at,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 1.866 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006tgh Id of event.
Event Code 70006tgh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q3h22x,us70006tgh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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