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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 79 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska


Earthquake location 54.6542S, -160.8528WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 79 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska (49 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.17 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:13:34 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/17 / 2017-12-21 12:13:34 / December 21, 2017 @ 12:13 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -160.8528 West, latitude 54.6542 North, depth = 23.17 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak17630194, us1000bvbn. Unique identifier: us1000bvbn.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.8528° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.6542° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 2017-12-21 12:13:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-08 10:57:06 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 138 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 0.729 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 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 us1000bvbn Id of event.
Event Code 1000bvbn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17630194,us1000bvbn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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