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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 272 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska

Posted by admin on March 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.0512S, -149.2605WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 272 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (169 miles) on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak18696645, us1000d4ia. Unique identifier: us1000d4ia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/03/18 / 2018-03-10 03:08:32 / March 10, 2018 @ 3:08 am. Exact location, longitude -149.2605° West, latitude 56.0512° North, depth = 21.03 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:08:32 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.03 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days nine hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 272 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.2605° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0512° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 272km 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 2018-03-10 03:08:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-20 21:37:35 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 2.515 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us1000d4ia Id of event.
Event Code 1000d4ia An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18696645,us1000d4ia, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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