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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Kaktovik in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 69.629S, -144.079WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 58 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska (36 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/01/19 / 2019-01-15 16:44:45 / January 15, 2019 @ 4:44 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -144.079 West, latitude 69.629 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: at00pldt6l. Ids that are associated to the event: at00pldt6l, ak019p2unz7. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:44:45 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kaktovik in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.079° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.629° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km SSW 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 2019-01-15 16:44:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-15 16:54:28 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 4.67 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 REVIEWED 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 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.103679 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122.399990208 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 at00pldt6l Id of event.
Event Code 00pldt6l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pldt6l,ak019p2unz7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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