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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Kaktovik in Alaska


Earthquake location 69.6946S, -144.2375WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 54 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska (34 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kaktovik in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: ak20106048. Ids that are associated to the event: at00pdjji9, ak20106048. The temblor was detected at 21:32:31 / 9:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -144.2375° West, latitude 69.6946° North, depth = 10.6 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/18 / 2018-08-16 06:32:31 / August 16, 2018 @ 6:32 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.6 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.2375° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.6946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km 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 2018-08-16 06:32:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-16 06:43:35 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 4.69 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 automatic 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 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak20106048 Id of event.
Event Code 20106048 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pdjji9,ak20106048, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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