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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 282 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.3555S, -148.5585WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 282 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (175 miles) on Friday. Exact location, longitude -148.5585° West, latitude 56.3555° North, depth = 12 km. The temblor was detected at 13:32:17 / 1:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 23:32:17 / January 26, 2018 @ 11:32 pm. Event id: ak18203127. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18203127. The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 282 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.5585° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3555° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 282km 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 2018-01-26 23:32:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-27 00:00:28 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 234 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 ak18203127 Id of event.
Event Code 18203127 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18203127, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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