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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.2393S, -149.3764WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 252 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (157 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 07:46:13 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/18 / 2018-02-13 17:46:13 / February 13, 2018 @ 5:46 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.38 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -149.3764° West, latitude 56.2393° North, depth = 20.38 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18479673, us2000d63j. Id of event: us2000d63j.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and twenty-nine, in the last 10 days nine hundred and twenty-five, in the past 30 days two thousand, five hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 252 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.3764° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.2393° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 252km 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 2018-02-13 17:46:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-13 21:30:39 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 178 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 2.339 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us2000d63j Id of event.
Event Code 2000d63j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18479673,us2000d63j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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