Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Kaktovik in Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 73 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska (45 miles) on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/08/18 / 2018-08-12 15:14:23 / August 12, 2018 @ 3:14 pm. The temblor was reported at 06:14:23 / 6:14 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). Event id: at00pdcszz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pdcszz. Exact location of earthquake, -144.786° West, 69.607° North, depth 20 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kaktovik in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-144.786° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	69.607° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73km 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	2018-08-12 15:14:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-12 15:18:19	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	385	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.968209	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118.799990496	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	at00pdcszz	Id of event.
Event Code	00pdcszz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00pdcszz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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