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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 77 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska


Earthquake location 59.7666S, -136.5427WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 77 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska (48 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5.19 km, -136.5427° West, 59.7666° North. Id of earthquake: us60007bdl. Event ids that are associated: ak020xcccq8, us60007bdl. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.19 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 16:11:56 / January 20, 2020 @ 4:11 pm. The temblor was reported at 08:11:56 / 8:11 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 77 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -136.5427° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.7666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km WNW of Skagway, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-20 16:11:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 16:11:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 237 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 0.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us60007bdl Id of event.
Event Code 60007bdl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020xcccq8,us60007bdl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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