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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.5765S, -159.6072WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (63 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -159.6072 West, latitude 54.5765 North, depth = 21.7 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/10/20 / 2020-10-19 23:04:23 / October 19, 2020 @ 11:04 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 23:04:23 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020dgy6kd1. Id of event: ak020dgy6kd1. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.7 km (13 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6072° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5765° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102 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 23:04:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-19 23:52:00 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 259 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 0.83 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 ak020dgy6kd1 Id of event.
Event Code 020dgy6kd1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020dgy6kd1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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