Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 180 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska (112 miles). Exact location, longitude -158.293° West, latitude 54.3333° North, depth = 16.4 km. Global time and date of event 19/10/20 / 2020-10-19 23:38:08 / October 19, 2020 @ 11:38 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.4 km (10 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000cc2p. Id of event: us6000cc2p. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:38:08 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. 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: 180 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-158.293° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.3333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	180 km SE 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 23:38:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-17 04:37:20	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	234	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	0.904	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	255	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	us6000cc2p	Id of event.
Event Code	6000cc2p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000cc2p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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