Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 89 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska (55 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -160.8626 West, latitude 54.5593 North, depth = 9.1 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak020ac6wt2m, us6000bd4h. Unique identifier: us6000bd4h. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.1 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/08/20 / 2020-08-12 05:02:59 / August 12, 2020 @ 5:02 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 05:02:59 / 5:02 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 89 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-160.8626° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.5593° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	89 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	2020-08-12 05:02:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-12 07:47:46	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	211	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	0.787	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	191	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000bd4h	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bd4h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak020ac6wt2m,us6000bd4h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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