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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0383S, -149.4252WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 266 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (165 miles). Global time and date of event 15/06/19 / 2019-06-15 12:42:33 / June 15, 2019 @ 12:42 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.36 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -149.4252° West, 56.0383° North, depth 20.36 km. The temblor was detected at 02:42:33 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0197mqm2ck, us6000414r. Id of event: us6000414r.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 266 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.4252° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0383° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 266km 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 2019-06-15 12:42:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-16 04:58:23 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 178 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 2.441 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 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 us6000414r Id of event.
Event Code 6000414r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0197mqm2ck,us6000414r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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