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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 12, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.6453S, -161.0785WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 85 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska (53 miles) on Tuesday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:16:33 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak0209nfpuh6. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0209nfpuh6. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/07/20 / 2020-07-28 08:16:33 / July 28, 2020 @ 8:16 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.9 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -161.0785 West, latitude 54.6453 North, depth = 6.9 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 85 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -161.0785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.6453° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 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 2020-07-28 08:16:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-12 11:54:18 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak0209nfpuh6 Id of event.
Event Code 0209nfpuh6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0209nfpuh6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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