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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.2882S, -149.0245WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 264 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (164 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000hfk6. Event ids that are associated: ak20255745, us2000hfk6. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.89 km (12 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/18 / 2018-09-16 21:30:25 / September 16, 2018 @ 9:30 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:30:25 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -149.0245° West, latitude 56.2882° North, depth = 18.89 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 264 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.0245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.2882° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 264km 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 2018-09-16 21:30:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-16 22:30:32 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 312 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 2.455 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000hfk6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000hfk6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20255745,us2000hfk6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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