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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 27, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5364S, -159.6444WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 104 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (65 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -159.6444 West, latitude 54.5364 North, depth = 27.34 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.34 km (17 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:55:55 / 6:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/12/20 / 2020-12-29 18:55:55 / December 29, 2020 @ 6:55 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000d457. Event ids that are associated: ak020gqao15d, us6000d457.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 104 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6444° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5364° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104 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 2020-12-29 18:55:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-27 20:12:31 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 158 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 0.297 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us6000d457 Id of event.
Event Code 6000d457 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020gqao15d,us6000d457, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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