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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.2488S, -149.4073WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 250 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (155 miles) on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/04/20 / 2020-04-14 22:41:19 / April 14, 2020 @ 10:41 pm. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:41:19 / 12:41 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0204u0s18k, us700091r7. Unique identifier: us700091r7. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -149.4073° West, 56.2488° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 250 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 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.4073° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.2488° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 250km 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 2020-04-14 22:41:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-22 22:46:30 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 2.319 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 264 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 us700091r7 Id of event.
Event Code 700091r7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0204u0s18k,us700091r7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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