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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.2937S, -150.1635WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 215 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (134 miles). Exact location, longitude -150.1635° West, latitude 56.2937° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us60006rvm. Event ids that are associated: ak019fy0ezj7, us60006rvm. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/12/19 / 2019-12-13 08:28:37 / December 13, 2019 @ 8:28 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:28:37 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.1635° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.2937° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 215km 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 2019-12-13 08:28:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-20 07:58:33 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 138 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 1.956 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us60006rvm Id of event.
Event Code 60006rvm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019fy0ezj7,us60006rvm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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