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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Kaktovik in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 14, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 69.8162S, -144.9835WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 62 km WSW of Kaktovik, Alaska (39 miles). The temblor was reported at 05:23:13 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak019ndzw4e. Event ids that are associated: at00plbryt, ak019ndzw4e. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.6 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/19 / 2019-01-14 14:23:13 / January 14, 2019 @ 2:23 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kaktovik in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -144.9835° West, 69.8162° North, depth 0.6 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km WSW of Kaktovik, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.9835° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.8162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km WSW of Kaktovik, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-14 14:23:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-14 14:42:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 4.54 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 1 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 284 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak019ndzw4e Id of event.
Event Code 019ndzw4e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00plbryt,ak019ndzw4e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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