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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 228 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska

Posted by admin on February 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.0854S, -150.3202WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 228 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (142 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/18 / 2018-02-08 03:58:02 / February 8, 2018 @ 3:58 am. The temblor was detected at 17:58:02 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.49 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -150.3202 West, latitude 56.0854 North, depth = 15.49 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18413493, us2000cynn. Id of event: us2000cynn.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-eight, in the past 30 days one thousand and seventy-two and in the last 365 days one thousand and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 228 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.3202° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0854° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 228km 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 2018-02-08 03:58:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-08 18:19:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 355 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 1.996 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cynn Id of event.
Event Code 2000cynn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18413493,us2000cynn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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