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

Posted by admin on January 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.9898S, -149.6328WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 262 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (163 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak18197686. Unique identifier: ak18197686. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 07:05:52 / January 26, 2018 @ 7:05 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.1 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 21:05:52 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.6328 West, latitude 55.9898 North, depth = 10.1 km.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 262 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.6328° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 262km 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 2018-01-26 07:05:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-30 16:19:14 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 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 0.6 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 ak18197686 Id of event.
Event Code 18197686 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18197686, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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