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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 53.445S, -160.02WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 212 km S of Sand Point, Alaska (132 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 05:49:26 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 83 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/12/20 / 2020-12-16 05:49:26 / December 16, 2020 @ 5:49 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: at00qlf46e. Event ids that are associated: at00qlf46e. Exact location of event, longitude -160.02 West, latitude 53.445 North, depth = 83 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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. 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: 212 km S of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.02° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.445° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 212 km S 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 2020-12-16 05:49:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-16 05:54:55 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 1 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 416 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.924191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219.599982432 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 at00qlf46e Id of event.
Event Code 00qlf46e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qlf46e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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