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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.1954S, -149.4209WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 253 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (157 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.4209 West, latitude 56.1954 North, depth = 5.6 km. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:05:15 / 7:05 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.6 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/06/19 / 2019-06-04 17:05:15 / June 4, 2019 @ 5:05 pm. Unique identifier: ak01974mgcdy. Ids that are associated to the event: ak01974mgcdy.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 253 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.4209° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1954° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 253km 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 2019-06-04 17:05:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-04 17:59:37 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 199 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 1.05 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 ak01974mgcdy Id of event.
Event Code 01974mgcdy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak01974mgcdy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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