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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Kaktovik in Alaska


Earthquake location 69.7823S, -145.01WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 65 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska (40 miles) on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.3 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/01/19 / 2019-01-14 18:49:20 / January 14, 2019 @ 6:49 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kaktovik in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: ak019ngj7hy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00plc4aa, ak019ngj7hy. Exact location of earthquake, -145.01° West, 69.7823° North, depth 1.3 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:49:20 / 9:49 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-seven 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 65 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -145.01° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.7823° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2019-01-14 18:49:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-14 19:03:07 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 4.46 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 284 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 ,at,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 0.92 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 ak019ngj7hy Id of event.
Event Code 019ngj7hy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00plc4aa,ak019ngj7hy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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