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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.1417S, -159.6445WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 143 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (89 miles) on Monday. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:28:01 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak020dgxq8m3. Unique identifier: ak020dgxq8m3. Global time and date of event 19/10/20 / 2020-10-19 22:28:01 / October 19, 2020 @ 10:28 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.6 km (16 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -159.6445 West, latitude 54.1417 North, depth = 25.6 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 143 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6445° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.1417° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 143 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 2020-10-19 22:28:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-19 23:38:58 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 246 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 0.46 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 ak020dgxq8m3 Id of event.
Event Code 020dgxq8m3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020dgxq8m3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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