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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.787S, -160.605WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 61 km S of Sand Point, Alaska (38 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/20 / 2020-07-24 03:07:08 / July 24, 2020 @ 3:07 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -160.605 West, latitude 54.787 North, depth = 22 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:07:08 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: at00qdydzw. Event ids that are associated: at00qdydzw.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km S of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.605° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.787° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 km S 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 2020-07-24 03:07:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-24 03:12:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 400 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5668369 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179.9999856 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 at00qdydzw Id of event.
Event Code 00qdydzw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qdydzw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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