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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Kaktovik in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 69.6456S, -144.7862WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 70 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska (43 miles) on Friday. Unique identifier: us70006u62. Ids that are associated to the event: at00q3j8uw, us70006u62. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.05 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/01/20 / 2020-01-03 13:16:19 / January 3, 2020 @ 1:16 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -144.7862 West, latitude 69.6456 North, depth = 23.05 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kaktovik in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:16:19 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 70 km SW of Kaktovik, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -144.7862° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.6456° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 2020-01-03 13:16:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-03 13:33:05 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,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 1.558 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 120 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006u62 Id of event.
Event Code 70006u62 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q3j8uw,us70006u62, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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