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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Kaktovik in Alaska


Earthquake location 69.5477S, -144.7755WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 78 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska (48 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/08/18 / 2018-08-13 23:00:34 / August 13, 2018 @ 11:00 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -144.7755° West, 69.5477° North, depth 10 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:00:34 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g8iq, ak20101989. Id of event: us1000g8iq.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 78 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.7755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.5477° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2018-08-13 23:00:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-13 23:36:54 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 3.87 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 0 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 211 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,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 2.13 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us1000g8iq Id of event.
Event Code 1000g8iq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g8iq,ak20101989, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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