Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 38 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (24 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -160.33° West, 55.004° North, depth 60 km. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:12:17 / 9:12 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/20 / 2020-07-29 09:12:17 / July 29, 2020 @ 9:12 am. Unique identifier: at00qe848h. Ids that are associated to the event: at00qe848h. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 38 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-160.33° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.004° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 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	2020-07-29 09:12:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-29 09:18:28	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	465	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3557329	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165.599986752	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	at00qe848h	Id of event.
Event Code	00qe848h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00qe848h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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