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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.0221S, -149.2313WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 275 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (171 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.64 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 17.64 km, -149.2313° West, 56.0221° North. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:04:08 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/01/18 / 2018-01-31 01:04:08 / January 31, 2018 @ 1:04 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000cz1l. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18414259, us2000cz1l.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 275 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.2313° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0221° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 275km 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 2018-01-31 01:04:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-09 03:22:15 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 2.544 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 245 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 us2000cz1l Id of event.
Event Code 2000cz1l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18414259,us2000cz1l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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