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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.4979S, -148.8843WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 257 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (160 miles). Unique identifier: us1000cf0t. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18300116, us1000cf0t. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 09:25:15 / January 24, 2018 @ 9:25 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.8843 West, latitude 56.4979 North, depth = 20.18 km. The temblor was detected at 23:25:15 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.18 km (13 miles).

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

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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: 257 km ESE 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 -148.8843° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.4979° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 257km 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 2018-01-24 09:25:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-18 07:11:44 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 199 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 2.392 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226 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 us1000cf0t Id of event.
Event Code 1000cf0t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18300116,us1000cf0t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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