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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kaktovik in Alaska


Earthquake location 69.726S, -144.857WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 65 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska (40 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:17:46 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 12:17:46 / December 16, 2019 @ 12:17 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: at00q2lu5m. Unique identifier: at00q2lu5m. 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, -144.857° West, 69.726° North, depth 20 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 65 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.857° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.726° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km SW 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 2019-12-16 12:17:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-16 12:21:26 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 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 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 298 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.632239 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 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 at00q2lu5m Id of event.
Event Code 00q2lu5m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q2lu5m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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