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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 58.3878S, -152.7913WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Kodiak in Alaska. Global time and date of event 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 07:27:17 / May 8, 2020 @ 7:27 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 22:27:17 / 10:27 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.4 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.7913 West, latitude 58.3878 North, depth = 34.4 km. Event id: ak0205xgnmmf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0205xgnmmf.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kodiak (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 70 km NNW of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.7913° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.3878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km NNW 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 2020-05-08 07:27:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 07:30:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 138 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 0.73 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 ak0205xgnmmf Id of event.
Event Code 0205xgnmmf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0205xgnmmf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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