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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.1979S, -159.6258WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 138 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (86 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.63 km (12 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:02:12 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/10/20 / 2020-10-24 13:02:12 / October 24, 2020 @ 1:02 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000cclm. Unique identifier: us6000cclm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -159.6258° West, latitude 54.1979° North, depth = 18.63 km.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 138 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6258° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.1979° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138 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 2020-10-24 13:02:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-24 13:19:39 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 271 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 ,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 0.634 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 us6000cclm Id of event.
Event Code 6000cclm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cclm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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