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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Kodiak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.4717S, -148.6253WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 271 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (168 miles) on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak18320808, us2000d194. Unique identifier: us2000d194. Exact location of earthquake, -148.6253° West, 56.4717° North, depth 21.27 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:33:31 / 6:33 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.27 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 04:33:31 / February 4, 2018 @ 4:33 am UTC/GMT.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 271 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6253° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.4717° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 271km 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 2018-02-04 04:33:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-27 02:18:57 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 2.526 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 208 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 us2000d194 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d194 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18320808,us2000d194, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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