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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0364S, -149.9847WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 244 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (152 miles) on Sunday. Unique identifier: us2000dde3. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18605556, us2000dde3. The temblor was reported at 06:30:39 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 16:30:39 / February 25, 2018 @ 4:30 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.9847 West, latitude 56.0364 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-one, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days one thousand, four hundred and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 244 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9847° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0364° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 244km 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 2018-02-25 16:30:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-07 18:10:10 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 158 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 2.178 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us2000dde3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dde3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18605556,us2000dde3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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