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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Kaktovik in Alaska

Posted by admin on September 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 69.6074S, -144.6887WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 71 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska (44 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g8il. Id of event: us1000g8il. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:55:23 / 1:55 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/08/18 / 2018-08-13 22:55:23 / August 13, 2018 @ 10:55 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -144.6887 West, latitude 69.6074 North, depth = 10 km.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and fourty-two, in the last 10 days four hundred and sixty-one, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.6887° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.6074° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 22:55:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-04 04:59:19 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 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 129 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, 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 0.342 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us1000g8il Id of event.
Event Code 1000g8il An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g8il, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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