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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.4699S, -160.8417WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 98 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska (61 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -160.8417 West, latitude 54.4699 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak0209ie29km, us6000bcdc. Unique identifier: us6000bcdc. The temblor was picked up at 03:09:38 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/07/20 / 2020-07-25 03:09:38 / July 25, 2020 @ 3:09 am.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 98 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.8417° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 km SSW 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 2020-07-25 03:09:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-11 21:58:56 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 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 121 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 0.812 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us6000bcdc Id of event.
Event Code 6000bcdc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0209ie29km,us6000bcdc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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