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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Kaktovik in Alaska


Earthquake location 69.659S, -144.061WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 55 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska (34 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kaktovik in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 20 km, -144.061° West, 69.659° North. The temblor was reported at 13:35:09 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: at00pn1iql. Unique identifier: at00pn1iql. The epicenter was at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 22:35:09 / February 16, 2019 @ 10:35 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 55 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.061° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.659° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2019-02-16 22:35:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-16 22:38:48 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 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 at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.218839 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143.99998848 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 at00pn1iql Id of event.
Event Code 00pn1iql An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pn1iql, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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