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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Kaktovik in Alaska


Earthquake location 69.5527S, -143.9248WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 65 km S of Kaktovik, Alaska (40 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/11/18 / 2018-11-21 08:00:57 / November 21, 2018 @ 8:00 am. Exact location of event, longitude -143.9248 West, latitude 69.5527 North, depth = 23.85 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.85 km (15 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hutm. Id of event: us1000hutm. The temblor was picked up at 23:00:57 / 11:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days six hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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. 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: 65 km S of Kaktovik, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -143.9248° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.5527° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km S 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 2018-11-21 08:00:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-27 07:38:41 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 148 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 0.105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us1000hutm Id of event.
Event Code 1000hutm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hutm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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