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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 57.5929S, -152.3645WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Kodiak in Alaska on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -152.3645 West, latitude 57.5929 North, depth = 37.4 km. Global time and date of event 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 15:42:53 / January 15, 2020 @ 3:42 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.4 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak020p28tkc. Unique identifier: ak020p28tkc. The temblor was reported at 06:42:53 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kodiak. Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (14 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km S of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.3645° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.5929° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km S 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 2020-01-15 15:42:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-15 16:03:38 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 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, 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 0.59 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 ak020p28tkc Id of event.
Event Code 020p28tkc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020p28tkc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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