Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 101 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (63 miles) on Monday. Global time and date of event 19/10/20 / 2020-10-19 22:09:36 / October 19, 2020 @ 10:09 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -159.9337° West, 54.4832° North, depth 32.2 km. The temblor was reported at 22:09:36 / 10:09 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.2 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000cc2u. Event ids that are associated: us6000cc2u.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 101 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.9337° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.4832° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	101 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 22:09:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-28 02:59:29	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	222	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	0.401	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	242	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	us6000cc2u	Id of event.
Event Code	6000cc2u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000cc2u,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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