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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 58.2393S, -151.631WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Kodiak in Alaska. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.8 km (18 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20467868. Id of event: ak20467868. The temblor was picked up at 00:45:44 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.631 West, latitude 58.2393 North, depth = 28.8 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/12/18 / 2018-12-08 09:45:44 / December 8, 2018 @ 9:45 am.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kodiak.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 67 km NE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.2393° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km NE 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 2018-12-08 09:45:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-08 09:50:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 automatic 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 ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak20467868 Id of event.
Event Code 20467868 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20467868, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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