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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Kodiak in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.5552S, -148.6371WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 266 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (165 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.48 km (13 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000d27q. Event ids that are associated: ak18340349, us2000d27q. The temblor was reported at 16:36:09 / 4:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.6371 West, latitude 56.5552 North, depth = 21.48 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/18 / 2018-02-05 02:36:09 / February 5, 2018 @ 2:36 am.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 266 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6371° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.5552° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 266km 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 2018-02-05 02:36:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-27 05:03:23 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 158 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 2.476 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 214 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 us2000d27q Id of event.
Event Code 2000d27q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18340349,us2000d27q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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