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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 58.2921S, -151.4779WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Kodiak in Alaska. Unique identifier: ak13603498. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13603498. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.7 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -151.4779° West, 58.2921° North, depth 1.7 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/05/16 / 2016-05-23 02:18:27 / May 23, 2016 @ 2:18 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 16:18:27 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kodiak. Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 78 km NE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.4779° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.2921° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km NE 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 2016-05-23 02:18:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-23 02:59:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 200 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 0.62 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 ak13603498 Id of event.
Event Code 13603498 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13603498, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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