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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.4314S, -159.6338WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 115 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (71 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:05:57 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak020dgwzz9j, us6000c9kb. Unique identifier: us6000c9kb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 27.45 km (17 miles). Global time and date of event 19/10/20 / 2020-10-19 21:05:57 / October 19, 2020 @ 9:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -159.6338° West, latitude 54.4314° North, depth = 27.45 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 115 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6338° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4314° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115 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 21:05:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-19 21:36:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 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 518 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 0.401 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us6000c9kb Id of event.
Event Code 6000c9kb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020dgwzz9j,us6000c9kb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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