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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.4102S, -148.5269WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 280 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (174 miles) on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18282489, us1000ce42. Id of event: us1000ce42. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 07:27:36 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 20.09 km, -148.5269° West, 56.4102° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.09 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 17:27:36 / January 23, 2018 @ 5:27 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one thousand, five hundred and sixteen, in the last 10 days one thousand, five hundred and sixteen, in the past 30 days one thousand, five hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.5269° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.4102° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 280km 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 2018-01-23 17:27:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 16:50:58 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 298 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 2.606 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us1000ce42 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ce42 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18282489,us1000ce42, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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