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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.3561S, -159.5599WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 124 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (77 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak020dk8ngwf. Unique identifier: ak020dk8ngwf. Exact location, longitude -159.5599° West, latitude 54.3561° North, depth = 15.8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.8 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 22:02:53 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/10/20 / 2020-10-21 22:02:53 / October 21, 2020 @ 10:02 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and eight, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 124 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.5599° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3561° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124 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 2020-10-21 22:02:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-28 16:36:28 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 178 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 0.63 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 ak020dk8ngwf Id of event.
Event Code 020dk8ngwf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020dk8ngwf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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