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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Arctic Village in Alaska


Earthquake location 69.161S, -146.0433WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 117 km N of Arctic Village, Alaska (73 miles). Exact location, longitude -146.0433° West, latitude 69.161° North, depth = 1.6 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: ak20284456. Event ids that are associated: ak20284456. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/10/18 / 2018-10-15 21:54:36 / October 15, 2018 @ 9:54 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.6 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:54:36 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 117 km N of Arctic Village, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -146.0433° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.161° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km N of Arctic Village, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-15 21:54:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-15 22:07:59 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 4.11 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 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 271 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 0.83 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 ak20284456 Id of event.
Event Code 20284456 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20284456, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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