Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 22 km W of Kaktovik, Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 22 km W of Kaktovik, Alaska (14 miles) on Sunday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:26:05 / 11:26 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: at00nr14nh. Event ids that are associated: at00nr14nh. Exact location of event, longitude -144.194 West, latitude 70.169 North, depth = 20 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 19:26:05 / July 5, 2015 @ 7:26 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kaktovik in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km W of Kaktovik, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-144.194° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	70.169° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km W 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	2015-07-05 19:26:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-05 19:29:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	271	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.44072263	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226.8	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	at00nr14nh	Id of event.
Event Code	00nr14nh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00nr14nh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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