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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 283 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska

Posted by admin on July 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.7843S, -149.5426WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 283 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (176 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 03:17:49 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000fpkv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19796139, us2000fpkv. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.5426 West, latitude 55.7843 North, depth = 8.5 km. Global time and date of event 23/06/18 / 2018-06-23 13:17:49 / June 23, 2018 @ 1:17 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.5 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 283 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.5426° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.7843° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.5 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 2018-06-23 13:17:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-20 15:58:42 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 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 2.527 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us2000fpkv Id of event.
Event Code 2000fpkv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19796139,us2000fpkv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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