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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 257 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0044S, -149.7095WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 257 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (160 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:23:34 / 7:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 17:23:34 / January 23, 2018 @ 5:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -149.7095° West, latitude 56.0044° North, depth = 18 km. Id of earthquake: us2000cn6d. Event ids that are associated: us2000cn6d.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 257 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.7095° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0044° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 257km 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 2018-01-23 17:23:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-23 19:01:06 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 298 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 ,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 2.324 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cn6d Id of event.
Event Code 2000cn6d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cn6d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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