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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.0394S, -149.7822WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 252 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (157 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.7822 West, latitude 56.0394 North, depth = 14.68 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/02/18 / 2018-02-16 07:58:42 / February 16, 2018 @ 7:58 am. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:58:42 / 9:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18437792, us2000d33n. Id of event: us2000d33n. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.68 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days one thousand, six hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, six hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 252 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.7822° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0394° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 252km 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 2018-02-16 07:58:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 09:10:20 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 178 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 2.271 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d33n Id of event.
Event Code 2000d33n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18437792,us2000d33n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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