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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.6649S, -159.8138WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 86 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (53 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: us6000ccg8. Ids that are associated to the event: ak020dgx2aam, us6000ccg8. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.8138 West, latitude 54.6649 North, depth = 22.04 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.04 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/10/20 / 2020-10-19 21:16:32 / October 19, 2020 @ 9:16 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:16:32 / 9:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and ninety-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.8138° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.6649° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 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 21:16:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-26 23:38:37 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 188 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 0.211 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 238 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 us6000ccg8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ccg8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020dgx2aam,us6000ccg8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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