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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Kodiak Station in Alaska


Earthquake location 58.2533S, -153.0404WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Kodiak Station in Alaska. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:10:45 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/02/19 / 2019-02-13 01:10:45 / February 13, 2019 @ 1:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -153.0404° West, latitude 58.2533° North, depth = 54.3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.3 km (34 miles). Event id: ak01920say26. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak01920say26.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kodiak.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 60 km NNW of Kodiak Station, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.0404° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.2533° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km NNW of Kodiak Station, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-13 01:10:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-13 01:15:47 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 121 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 0.49 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 ak01920say26 Id of event.
Event Code 01920say26 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak01920say26, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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