Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Kodiak in Alaska on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 05:30:26 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0203jkw9zy. Unique identifier: ak0203jkw9zy. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.1 km (37 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/20 / 2020-03-17 14:30:26 / March 17, 2020 @ 2:30 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -152.6427 West, latitude 58.303 North, depth = 60.1 km.

Event epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kodiak.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km NNW of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-152.6427° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	58.303° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km NNW 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	2020-03-17 14:30:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-17 14:34:09	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	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	0.64 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	ak0203jkw9zy	Id of event.
Event Code	0203jkw9zy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0203jkw9zy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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