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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.9991S, -150.1178WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 243 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (151 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/19 / 2019-12-30 13:52:26 / December 30, 2019 @ 1:52 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.1178 West, latitude 55.9991 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70006wez. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019gq7ocs3, us70006wez. The temblor was picked up at 03:52:26 / 3:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 243 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.1178° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9991° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 243km 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 2019-12-30 13:52:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-15 15:01:31 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 129 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 2.138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 us70006wez Id of event.
Event Code 70006wez An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019gq7ocs3,us70006wez, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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