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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.9307S, -148.2723WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 266 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (165 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 04:35:38 / April 18, 2020 @ 4:35 am UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:35:38 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak02050c65fv, us70009c3g. Unique identifier: us70009c3g. Exact location of event, longitude -148.2723 West, latitude 56.9307 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-nine 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. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 266 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.2723° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.9307° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 266km ESE 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 2020-04-18 04:35:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 21:24:06 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 148 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 2.487 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 us70009c3g Id of event.
Event Code 70009c3g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02050c65fv,us70009c3g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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