Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Kaktovik in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 85 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska (53 miles) on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/08/18 / 2018-08-12 16:30:40 / August 12, 2018 @ 4:30 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.9 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:30:40 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak20078991. Ids that are associated to the event: ak20078991. Exact location of event, longitude -145.0553 West, latitude 69.55 North, depth = 4.9 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and thirty-eight, in the last 10 days three hundred and fourty-one, in the past 30 days three hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 85 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-145.0553° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	69.55° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	85km 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 16:30:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-18 15:56:56	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	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	121	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	,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	0.54 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	ak20078991	Id of event.
Event Code	20078991	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak20078991,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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