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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.3916S, -149.0363WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 256 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (159 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:52:42 / 1:52 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18436577, us2000d28i. Id of event: us2000d28i. Exact location, longitude -149.0363° West, latitude 56.3916° North, depth = 21.69 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/18 / 2018-02-05 11:52:42 / February 5, 2018 @ 11:52 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.69 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and fifty-six, in the last 10 days one thousand and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 256 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.0363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 256km 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 2018-02-05 11:52:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-23 07:39:16 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 2.386 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us2000d28i Id of event.
Event Code 2000d28i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18436577,us2000d28i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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