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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0736S, -149.4811WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 261 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (162 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:29:23 / 7:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/03/18 / 2018-03-09 17:29:23 / March 9, 2018 @ 5:29 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000d4dq. Event ids that are associated: ak18696167, us1000d4dq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.48 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -149.4811° West, 56.0736° North, depth 20.48 km.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 261 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.4811° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0736° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 261km 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 2018-03-09 17:29:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-07 20:41:27 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 222 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 2.396 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 us1000d4dq Id of event.
Event Code 1000d4dq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18696167,us1000d4dq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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