Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 93 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 93 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (58 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:30:07 / 1:30 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/10/20 / 2020-10-28 01:30:07 / October 28, 2020 @ 1:30 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.78 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -159.8899° West, 54.5702° North, depth 26.78 km. Id of earthquake: us7000c6ju. Event ids that are associated: us7000c6ju.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighteen, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 93 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	-159.8899° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.5702° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	93 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	2020-10-28 01:30:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-28 01:39:54	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	,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	0.314	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	201	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	us7000c6ju	Id of event.
Event Code	7000c6ju	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000c6ju,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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