Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 111 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska (69 miles) on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 19/12/17 / 2017-12-19 22:34:00 / December 19, 2017 @ 10:34 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000bv9i. Event ids that are associated: ak17617938, us1000bv9i. Exact location of event, longitude -161.3386 West, latitude 54.4604 North, depth = 14.8 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:34:00 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.8 km (9 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 111 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-161.3386° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.4604° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	111km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-19 22:34:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-02 02:44:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	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	188	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	,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	0.846	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	195	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	us1000bv9i	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bv9i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak17617938,us1000bv9i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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