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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.7284S, -147.9129WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 295 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (183 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:08:56 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -147.9129 West, latitude 56.7284 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000cf54. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18300314, us1000cf54. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 19:08:56 / January 24, 2018 @ 7:08 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fourty-nine, in the last 10 days five hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 295 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -147.9129° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.7284° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 295km ESE 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 2018-01-24 19:08:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-08 22:33:29 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 129 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 2.748 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 224 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 us1000cf54 Id of event.
Event Code 1000cf54 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18300314,us1000cf54, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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