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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.9064S, -149.2825WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 283 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (176 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.93 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:24:43 / 5:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -149.2825° West, latitude 55.9064° North, depth = 7.93 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/02/18 / 2018-02-22 15:24:43 / February 22, 2018 @ 3:24 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000d9xi. Event ids that are associated: ak18573393, us2000d9xi.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and ninety, in the last 10 days six hundred and ninety, in the past 30 days two thousand, six hundred and one and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.2825° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9064° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 283km 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 2018-02-22 15:24:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-17 16:45:24 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 168 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 2.579 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us2000d9xi Id of event.
Event Code 2000d9xi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18573393,us2000d9xi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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