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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.2386S, -150.0792WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 223 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (139 miles). Event id: us1000ci2e. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18387711, us1000ci2e. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 21:12:15 / January 25, 2018 @ 9:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -150.0792 West, latitude 56.2386 North, depth = 10 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:12:15 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six hundred and thirty-one, in the last 10 days one thousand, two hundred and fifty-six, in the past 30 days one thousand, two hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 223 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0792° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.2386° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 223km 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 2018-01-25 21:12:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-08 23:26:42 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 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 121 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 2.024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 258 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 us1000ci2e Id of event.
Event Code 1000ci2e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18387711,us1000ci2e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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