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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 27, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.959S, -160.367WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 42 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (26 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/20 / 2020-07-27 19:34:39 / July 27, 2020 @ 7:34 pm. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:34:39 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: at00qe57pr. Unique identifier: at00qe57pr. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -160.367 West, latitude 54.959 North, depth = 28 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days sixty-nine, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 42 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.367° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.959° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42 km 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 2020-07-27 19:34:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-27 19:39:11 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 449 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.404965 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201.599983872 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00qe57pr Id of event.
Event Code 00qe57pr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qe57pr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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