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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 121 km S of Kodiak, Alaska


Earthquake location 56.7047S, -152.1618WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 121 km S of Kodiak, Alaska (75 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/19 / 2019-12-21 20:41:34 / December 21, 2019 @ 8:41 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.1618 West, latitude 56.7047 North, depth = 2.8 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019gbfxq70. Id of event: ak019gbfxq70. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.8 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:41:34 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 121 km S of Kodiak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.1618° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.7047° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 121km S 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 2019-12-21 20:41:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-21 20:45:42 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 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 222 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 0.87 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 ak019gbfxq70 Id of event.
Event Code 019gbfxq70 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019gbfxq70, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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