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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 9, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5626S, -159.7969WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 97 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (60 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/20 / 2020-10-20 01:23:41 / October 20, 2020 @ 1:23 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ak020di8qhcb, us7000c853. Unique identifier: us7000c853. The temblor was picked up at 01:23:41 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -159.7969 West, latitude 54.5626 North, depth = 29.35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.35 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 97 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.7969° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 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 2020-10-20 01:23:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-09 05:19:01 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 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 0.294 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 us7000c853 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c853 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020di8qhcb,us7000c853, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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