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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Kaktovik in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 69.6182S, -144.1854WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 61 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska (38 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/10/18 / 2018-10-04 13:12:57 / October 4, 2018 @ 1:12 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kaktovik in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -144.1854° West, 69.6182° North, depth 3.9 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:12:57 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 3.9 km (2 miles). Id of earthquake: ak20270862. Event ids that are associated: ak20270862, at00pg2spo, us1000h6xg.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days seventy and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 61 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.1854° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.6182° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km 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 2018-10-04 13:12:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-04 13:30:35 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 4.26 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 259 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,at,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 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 ak20270862 Id of event.
Event Code 20270862 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20270862,at00pg2spo,us1000h6xg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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