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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Kaktovik in Alaska


Earthquake location 69.5346S, -144.1283WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 57 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska (35 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 22:35:08 / February 16, 2019 @ 10:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: ak019263kdhw. Ids that are associated to the event: at00pn1iql, ak019263kdhw, us2000jiz7. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:35:08 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -144.1283° West, latitude 69.5346° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kaktovik in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. 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: 57 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.1283° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.5346° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km 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 22:35:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-16 23:01:15 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 4.1 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 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 246 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,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 0.98 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 ak019263kdhw Id of event.
Event Code 019263kdhw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pn1iql,ak019263kdhw,us2000jiz7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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