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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.0627S, -160.2359WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 34 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (21 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:26:21 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 14.11 km, -160.2359° West, 55.0627° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0193b87ia8, us2000kc5t. Id of event: us2000kc5t. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.11 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/03/19 / 2019-03-13 09:26:21 / March 13, 2019 @ 9:26 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.2359° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.0627° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSE 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 2019-03-13 09:26:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-11 11:47:05 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 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 168 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 0.318 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us2000kc5t Id of event.
Event Code 2000kc5t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0193b87ia8,us2000kc5t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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