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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.3376S, -159.584WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 125 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (78 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, -159.584° West, 54.3376° North, depth 18.7 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.7 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000c9r1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020di8c456, us6000c9r1. The temblor was detected at 00:56:36 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/20 / 2020-10-20 00:56:36 / October 20, 2020 @ 12:56 am.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 125 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.584° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3376° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125 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 2020-10-20 00:56:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-20 01:38:19 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 354 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 0.494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 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 us6000c9r1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c9r1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020di8c456,us6000c9r1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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