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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 22, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.6062S, -159.698WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 96 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (60 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.698 West, latitude 54.6062 North, depth = 25.22 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.22 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/12/20 / 2020-12-03 18:05:00 / December 3, 2020 @ 6:05 pm. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:05:00 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020fjae6dt, us7000cpzi. Id of event: us7000cpzi.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 96 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.698° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.6062° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96 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 2020-12-03 18:05:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-22 15:47:34 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 168 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 0.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 us7000cpzi Id of event.
Event Code 7000cpzi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020fjae6dt,us7000cpzi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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