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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.1806S, -149.1937WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 265 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (165 miles). Id of earthquake: ak18636635. Event ids that are associated: ak18636635. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.1937 West, latitude 56.1806 North, depth = 11.7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.7 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/03/18 / 2018-03-01 12:30:21 / March 1, 2018 @ 12:30 pm. The temblor was reported at 02:30:21 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-five, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days one thousand and sixty-six and in the last 365 days two thousand, four hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 265 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.1937° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1806° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 265km 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 2018-03-01 12:30:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-09 03:16:13 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 129 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 0.79 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 ak18636635 Id of event.
Event Code 18636635 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18636635, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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